svn commit: r366186 - in head/usr.sbin: bsdconfig/share/media bsdinstall/scripts

[Niclas Zeising]

On 2020-09-26 20:12, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> Author: zeising (doc,ports committer)
>> Date: Sat Sep 26 16:27:09 2020
>> New Revision: 366186
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/366186
>>
>> Log:
>>    bsdconfig, bsdinstall: Prune dead mirrors
>>    
>>    Prune dead mirrors from the list of mirrors in bsdconfig and bsdinstall.
>>    All these return NXDOMAIN when trying to resolve them.
> 
> This seems like the wrong place to fix it, as this does
> nothing for all the "shipped" releases that contain the
> old values.  Shouldnt these all just be CNAMED in dns
> to a nearest replacement resource?
> 
> 

Considering that we don't actually have control of the subdomans 
(CC.freebsd.org) ourselves, that is trickier than it might sound.
I do not oppose that change, but I'm not doing the work to chase all the 
subdomain DNS admins down to try to fix it.
This change cleans out some old mirrors for the 12.2 release, so that 
people installing 12.2 (and later stuff) won't have the installer 
complain when they accidentally pick a nonexistent mirror.
I believe that the proper way to fix this is to just use the FreeBSD CDN 
even for these downloads (basically, go straight to 
download.freebsd.org, or at least have that as the preferred option), 
but I haven't gotten around to that.
Regards
-- 
Niclas Zeising