Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 21:13:15 -0600 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" <donaldjoneill@gmail.com> To: Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portsnap Message-ID: <200601282113.16239.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3aaaa3a0601281719v654abcay@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060128142808.950F.GERARD@seibercom.net> <200601281525.39206.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> <3aaaa3a0601281719v654abcay@mail.gmail.com>
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On Saturday 28 January 2006 19:19, Chris wrote: > > Concerning speed I discovered the version in the ports tree is very > slow, I have portsnap running zippy when using fetch on 2 5.4 boxes > which I use the version in the base system, on 2 5.3 boxes and a 4.10 > box I use the version from ports and portsnap fetch takes about 20-30 > minutes to fetch 2000 port patches, which takes a few seconds on the > base version, I discovered the base version doesnt fetch from a url > but instead of a new server. I contacted the dev and he confirmed > the ports version is old so I guess the ports maintainer needs to > update it until that is done I dont reccomend it for 5.3 and older. > > Chris Hi Chris, I run two 6.0 stable boxes at home. I guess that's why one needs to ask what version of FreeBSD are you using? I'd never used portsnap until I was trying to put as much speed as I could into setting up the two 6.0 boxes. I will remeber about 5.3 and older. Don
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