Matt Burgess wrote: > On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 16:29 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: >> On 9/12/2012 11:30 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> I'd like to request that editors try to find alternative sites to >>> sourceforge. If that's the only site available, please offer anduin as >>> an alternate source. >> >> The only problem with that is everyone (including editors) do not know >> where the main hosting site for the package is, and makes it more >> difficult to find original source, updates, patches, etc. >> >> If we do this, I suggest we create an entity something like "This >> package is hosted at Sourceforge and due to slow download speeds >> another URL is listed. You can find the package at". And then add >> xxxxxxxx.sourceforge.net. > > The other thing with sourceforge is that it has geographical based > mirrors, so the slow download speeds may only affect a small subset of > the readership.
Well the master at Oregon State was quite slow and my system in Texas is often slow too. The problem is not at my end because other sources are quite fast. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
