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

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

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

From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
        pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, bad%bsd.de@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/33872 (xorg master sites are slow as molasses in january)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 23:50:21 +0200

 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