Lars Eggert wrote:
On 2009-4-7, at 14:21, Julian Stacey wrote:
Perhaps some SOC student might like to develop some extension to
fetch, or a new tool to intelligently save net bandwidth & human
time (if not this year if SOC bids are in, then next) :
Intelligently & automatically sniff fetch list to see where
stuff is, measure the bandwidth, perhaps on a preliminary
README, & automatically decide where to fetch from.
& as 2nd stage, give up & try elsewhere if the server
connection gets too bad.
Use BitTorrent for all file distribution, it does all that. Yes, I'm
half serious.
Lars
What about this:
# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup && make install clean && rehash
# fastest_cvsup -c us,ee,ru,eu,uk,de,no,se
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