cvsup.de.FreeBSD.org out of sync? (was: "make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC fails")

[Lorenzo Perone]

On 29.05.2009, at 13:06, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> On 2009-May-27 00:42:52 +0200, Lorenzo Perone <lopez.on.the.lists at yellowspace.net 
> > wrote:
>> On 27.05.2009, at 00:08, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
>>
>>> Ruben van Staveren wrote:
>>>> On 26 May 2009, at 22:38, Christian Walther wrote:
>>>>> it finished successfully. From my point of view it appears that
>>>>> cvsup.de.freebsd.org is out of sync.
>>>> cvsup.de.freebsd.org is definitely out of sync. I had build errors
>>>> which only went away after switching to a different cvsup server
>>>
>>> Same here, a week ago.
>>
>> same here too... a few mins and hours ago.
>> with cvsup5.de.freebsd.org as well...
>
> This is a not-uncommon problem with lots of CVSup servers.  edwin@
> maintains a statistics page at http://www.mavetju.org/unix/freebsd-mirrors/
> that is worth studying - it shows that cvsup.de.freebsd.org is badly
> out of sync, though cvsup5 should be OK.

cool work... I'd think of a small script to use that page
for wrapping csup and passing on the best and nearest available
mirror (for that of course, plain text/xml output would be
great)... :)

in any case, at least a $FreeBSD$ tag check would be cool in csup:
sometimes it can have quite destructive consequences to get
an outdated source...

Lorenzo