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authorMark Linimon <linimon@FreeBSD.org>2005-10-01 20:49:17 +0000
committerMark Linimon <linimon@FreeBSD.org>2005-10-01 20:49:17 +0000
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Add a note about the maximum number of entries in a single mastersite
list that is considered useful. Add a note about how all entries must terminate with a slash. This is part of the continuing attempt to clean up the very poor state of this file. hat: portmgr
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=143931
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# be punished accordingly. DO NOT COMMIT SOMETHING YOU HAVEN'T TESTED.
# You have been warned. :)
#
+# Note: because it is included for all invocations, please keep the size
+# of this file manageable. If a distfile is unfetchable from the first
+# few dozen locations, it is unlikely to be fetchable from any past that,
+# and those fetch failures will simply waste time and bandwidth. Please
+# pick a globally representative subset.
+#
+# Note: all entries should terminate with a slash.
+#
# $FreeBSD$
#