There is a port under ports-mgmt called fastest_sites. This the MASTER_SITE definitions depending on the round-trip time for the tcp connections. The results are sorted by fastest response time and in a format suitable for Makefile.
# cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/fastest_sites
# make install
Now let’s generate the sorted list of master sites:
# fastest_sites > /usr/local/etc/ports_sites.conf &
This step may take some time as quite a number of sites have to be checked. In the meantime you can add the following line to /etc/make.conf:
.include "/usr/local/etc/ports_sites.conf"
From: arnolds.se. Originally published by the writer of this python script on semicomplete.com.
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