Re: pkg/33872 (xorg master sites are slow as molasses in january)

[Geert Hendrickx <ghen%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 10:50:02AM +0000, Christoph Badura wrote:
>  On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 12:35:12AM +0000, joerg%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
> > The official master site *is* xorg.freedesktop.org.
> > It is a common occurance that mirrors are faster than
> > the primary site.
>  
> What's that got to do with it? Projects want mirror sites to take the
> load off the master site.  You should know, be cause the project you are
> most involved with actively says to use their master site only as a last
> resort!
>  
> If you do not trust the mirrors to supply correct distfiles why list them
> in the first place?
>  
> > Think about using MASTER_SORT instead.
>  
> Maybe you should have done that.  MASTER_SORT isn't intended to be used
> to move unwanted master sites to the end of the list.

Then you'll like this:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2006/09/14/0006.html

        Geert