MASTER_SITE quality of emulation@, freebsd-emulation@ ports

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt at FreeBSD.org> (from Sat, 26 Feb 2011  
12:58:14 +0100):

> The distilator [1] shows that roughly 97% by a total of109969 all
> referenced distfiles fail to download. Resulting in countless timeouts.
>
> Excerpt from the most recent run:
>
> Maintainer                      ok      bad     % bad
> emulation at FreeBSD.org           1005    45696   97.85%
> freebsd-emulation at FreeBSD.org   1691    61577   97.33%
>
> Why don't we just mirror the distfiles somewhere else where the files
> aren't moved away every other week. I'd be glad to offer webspace on
> MASTER_SITES_CRITICAL for instance, I'm sure more mirrors could be
> found.

Fine for me. Candidates are the distfiles for the f10 (for FreeBSD  
 >=8.x) and fc4 (for FreeBSD 7.x) ports (I plan to deprecate the other  
ones). I assume we can generate a similar subtree as currently used so  
that we just need to change the master site.

Bye,
Alexander.

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