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

[Christoph Badura <bad%bsd.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/33872; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christoph Badura <bad%bsd.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: tech-pkg%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/33872 (xorg master sites are slow as molasses in january)
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 12:49:37 +0200

 On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 12:35:12AM +0000, joerg%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
 > Synopsis: xorg master sites are slow as molasses in january
 > 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
 > State-Changed-By: joerg%netbsd.org@localhost
 > State-Changed-When: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:35:11 +0000
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > 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.
 
 In summary, you closed the PR after giving bad advice and without
 actually addressing the issue.
 
 --chris