Subject: Re: Proposal: Sort order for MASTER_SITES
To: Alistair Crooks <Alistair_Crooks@CommerzbankZGE.com>
From: Rene Hexel <rh@idle.trapdoor.vip.at>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/18/1999 11:37:25
Alistair Crooks wrote:

> 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

  The advantage of this proposal is that this also works nicely for URLs
like 'ftp.netbsd.org' that do not explicitly contain the country the
download site is situated in.  On the downside, however, this means that
*all* packages have to be modified to explicitely contain the various
MASTER_SITE_XX definitions for their mirror sites!?

  Cheers
      ,
   Rene