SourceForge fetch group (was: Re: [86151] trunk/dports/audio/liblo/Portfile)

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Oct 22, 2011, at 3:51 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Oct 21, 2011, at 21:22, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>> and fallback to pinging sites and selecting a mirror from the list only if there's a problem with the main site
> 
> This would require changes to MacPorts base. We don't currently have the ability to define groups of master_sites with different priorities -- except the hardcoded list of fallback servers which are tried last.

I know, but given that this is -dev, I didn't think discussing possible changes to base/ was that crazy of an idea ;-)

>> (it's very likely that it can do a better job than we can of directing people to an appropriate server).
> 
> That's possible; it probably does some kind of geoip location. Which we could also do, as I've suggested before: we could route all our downloads through a redirector, just like they do.

Just FYI, geoip stuff doesn't work very well (unless you spend lots of $$, and even then it doesn't work very well).

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