Blacklisting a SourceForge mirror from ports?

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Thu Dec 24 03:41:02 UTC 2009


On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:32:20 +0000
RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:38:01 -0600
> Kirk Strauser <kirk at strauser.com> wrote:

> > MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE=http://sunet.dl.sourceforge.net/%SUBDIR%/

> > That *usually* works, but will often return a redirect, in which
> > case the fetch goes back to using the list of mirrors, starting with
> > heanet, which puts me back in the same predicament.
> 
> Don't the default settings prevent fetch following redirects. 

If you mean that fetch refuses the redirect and the ports system moves
on to the next entry then you can simply paste the entire sourceforge
list with heanet removed.


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