Subject: Re: pythons' MASTER_SITES
To: Louis Guillaume <lguillaume@berklee.edu>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/25/2005 18:44:45
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 11:45:38AM -0500, Louis Guillaume wrote:
> Using pkgsrc-2005Q3
>
> It looks like the python23 and python24 packages' MASTER_SITES isn't
> working because python.org's ftp site seems to be down. Not sure if their
> ftp site will be coming back up, but the source is available through the
> website.
Alternatively, could we start using a MASTER_SITES_PYTHON variable, which
users can set to a close mirror in their /etc/mk.conf? Many sites are
mirroring Python.
Geert