Like Hubert, I think the idea is good, but the regular expression is a bit
clumsy.

My suggestion would be to set up various definitions:

MASTER_SITE_AT?= ftp.at.netbsd.org
MASTER_SITE_DE?= ftp.de.netbsd.org
MASTER_SITE_CH?= ftp.ch.netbsd.org
MASTER_SITE_UK?= ftp.demon.co.uk
MASTER_SITE_US?= ftp.netbsd.org
MASTER_SITE_JP?= ftp.jp.netbsd.org

and then have

MASTER_SITE_ORDER= CH AT DE

(or whatever your preference is, automated or not) in /etc/mk.conf, and

MASTER_SITE_ORDER?= US

.for country in ${MASTER_SITE_ORDER}
...try to look for it in ${MASTER_SITE_${country}}
.endfor

in bsd.pkg.mk.

Regards,
Alistair

-----Original Message-----
From: Hubert Feyrer [mailto:feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de]
Sent: Donnerstag, 17. Juni 1999 13:47
To: Martin J. Laubach
Cc: tech-pkg@netbsd.org; rh@vip.at
Subject: Re: Proposal: Sort order for MASTER_SITES



Hi Martin & Rene!

On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Martin J. Laubach wrote:
> 	MASTER_SORT= //.*\.at\.netbsd\.org/ //.*\.at/ //.*\.(de|ch)/
>   and the MASTER_SITES list will be adjusted accordingly.
> 
>   Comments?

Sounds fairly straight-forward, except that the input for MASTER_SORT is
fairly unreadable. Can we make this a simple list of globs:

	MASTER_SORT= *.at.netbsd.org *.at *.netbsd.org

or maybe even skip the "*." part, as that one's pretty obvious?


 - Hubert

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