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

[Johan Kuuse]

> Message: 14
> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 20:59:10 +0200
> From: Lorenzo Perone <lopez.on.the.lists at yellowspace.net>
> Subject: Re: cvsup.de.FreeBSD.org out of sync? (was: "make buildkernel
> 	KERNCONF=GENERIC fails")
> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at optushome.com.au>
> Cc: stable at freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <4783D483-DA04-4363-8B40-BAA826F2B306 at yellowspace.net>
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> 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 an outdated source...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

Suggestions for a small script:
Hack the Perl script
sysutils/fastest_cvsup
which currently uses a hard coded hash for %FREEBSD_SERVERS
Instead, the script could parse
http://www.mavetju.org/unix/freebsd-mirrors/cvsup-stats-global.php
and use only "green" servers for the %FREEBSD_SERVERS hash.

Johan