Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 10:43:48 +0100 (MET) From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina) Cc: petzi@zit.th-darmstadt.de, jdp@polstra.com, freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new sup server Message-ID: <199603240943.KAA05841@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199603240733.XAA07511@precipice.shockwave.com>
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> > > > From: petzi@zit.th-darmstadt.de (Michael Beckmann) > Subject: Re: new sup server > > I must agree with that. I tried to run a sup mirror in Germany, but have > never been able to make world or build a kernel with the sources from that > mirror. There has always been corruption of the source tree. Michael, as I told you before, I cannot quite share your experience. I supped yesterday -current from sup1.de.freebsd.org to a machine connected locally and the make world ran perfectly without a hitch. I agree with you that the international lines are stuffed up during daytime in Europe but suping nightly seems to work fine. > > I'm surprised. Are you talking -current, -stable, or -cvs? > > I build -current trees by suping off of sup2 (i.e. I'm my own customer) > every few days and have never had a sup-related corruption. > > Due to the highly loaded intercontinental lines, the sup updates from > Freefall can take several hours, and in rare cases, (in particular if > freefall doesn't let me in due to its ten user limit) they aren't finished > until next night. It appears that the situation has improved somewhat with > the new Internet connection of Freefall, though, which doesn't route > through MCI/BBNPlanet any more. > > I would really like to provide some service for up-to-date FreeBSD sources > in Europe, but sup simply doesn't work right under these conditions. I > wouldn't mind the updates taking several hours, but I do mind getting > garbled sources. They cost me a lot of time already. > > Sounds like a big call to fix CTM. > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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