Perl script to find fastest CVSup server:
* uses socket connections not just 'pings'
* takes notice of server responses
* connects to servers in countries specified on the command line
- or -
connects to the 'local' servers defined in the script
- or -
connects to ALL the servers in ALL the countries
* returns either fastest server or top 3 (useful for scripts)
* returns exit codes (useful for scripts)
* can re-write itself to update the CVSup server list, obtained
from the online FreeBSD Handbook
* can easily add other CVSup servers (NetBSD/OpenBSD...etc)
WWW: http://fastest-cvsup.sourceforge.net/
Remove expired ports:
2018-11-15 net-mgmt/vidalia: outdated and unmaintained
2018-11-15 german/selfhtml: Project migrated to a Wiki
2018-11-15 sysutils/fastest_cvsup: Obsolete, FreeBSD and OpenBSD switched from
cvsup to svn and cvsync, NetBSD only have 2 servers left
- Deprecate and set expiration date to 2018-11-15: Obsolete, FreeBSD and OpenBSD
switched from cvsup to svn and cvsync, NetBSD only have 2 servers left
PR: 231813
Approved by: maintainer timeout (2 weeks)
- Update to 0.3.0.
- Remove round-trip option as this patch is included upstream now. See
the new -t argument.
- Remove outdated perl version check.
- Re-add WWW in pkg-descr.
- Pass maintainership to upstream maintainer.
- Allow to use "-c us" option for U.S. servers.
- Allow to use "-c tld" option for TLD servers.
- Bump version to 0.2.9 to reflect these changes.
PR: ports/74711
Submitted by: kensmith
ports with possibly unreachable MAINTAINERs
*** addresses that may be dead, even though the error is temporary:
*** addresses that seem to be dead, but give a hint to a new address:
PR: ports/58694
Submitted by: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
