From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 10 22:50:59 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21E3E106564A for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:50:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhelfman@experts-exchange.com) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [72.29.183.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0AA98FC15 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:50:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B79826EC87E for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:50:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=e-e.com; h= user-agent:in-reply-to:content-disposition:content-type :content-type:mime-version:references:message-id:subject:subject :from:from:date:date:received:received:received; s=ee; t= 1297378258; x=1299192658; bh=P4IDWzO/PN5HdUVtoerobSBJUVW4tJeRKaz EjbdwFfk=; b=Rs8DFYqQoqHAAt2dlscuW/kNneFspxF41oi/YNkN0RkwoCB2wkB 3/KYwFyNyo640ktjw4ALQrSHdOadi9Yj72JSwHfVoMLUHPSoXC9VzfjOnqWuyXSs 9yK2pmDon1k7eBjHF2T0BMbZEcNzagFocsTiHxf0u+gpg0XTDJSJ6Hyg= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at experts-exchange.com Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Q78lmvtXGYvA for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:50:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from experts-exchange.com (unknown [192.168.103.122]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 456B16EC85F for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:50:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (nullmailer pid 76159 invoked by uid 1001); Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:47:39 -0000 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:47:39 -0800 From: Jason Helfman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110210224738.GE75122@eggman.experts-exchange.com> References: <447hd7y8f2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20110210221338.400f1f52@gumby.homeunix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110210221338.400f1f52@gumby.homeunix.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE X-Living-The-Dream: I love the SLO Life! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Subject: Re: Run your own portsnap mirror? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:50:59 -0000 On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:13:38PM +0000, RW thus spake: >On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:52:01 -0500 >Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> patrick writes: >> >> > Is there any official way to run a private portsnap mirror? ie. Have >> > one, external server fetch from the official portsnap sources, and >> > then internal servers pulling from the private mirror? >> >> It runs over pipelined HTTP, so all you need to do is set up a caching >> HTTP proxy, and have your internal servers use that. > >If you are going to do that then you need to set HTTP_PROXY >and/or http_proxy consistently. If either of these are set portsnap uses >them to to seed it's choice of server rather than a pure random >selection. > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I would be highly interested in running my own internal portsnap mirror based on an internal ports tree with local ports, as well. Has anyone done this? -- Jason Helfman System Administrator experts-exchange.com http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_4830110.html E4AD 7CF1 1396 27F6 79DD 4342 5E92 AD66 8C8C FBA5