From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 18 17:52:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EE3E16A40E for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:52:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marius.nuennerich@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 11D8243D78 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:52:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marius.nuennerich@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 18 Apr 2006 17:52:12 -0000 Received: from p5083CC22.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO sol) [80.131.204.34] by mail.gmx.net (mp020) with SMTP; 18 Apr 2006 19:52:12 +0200 X-Authenticated: #5707313 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:52:08 +0200 From: Marius Nuennerich To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060418195208.06cbf2f0@sol> In-Reply-To: <3aaaa3a0604171743y33af6355udf750eca65605920@mail.gmail.com> References: <3aaaa3a0604171743y33af6355udf750eca65605920@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.0 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Subject: Re: portsnap mirror servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:52:19 -0000 On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 01:43:52 +0100 Chris wrote: > How many mirrors does portsnap have, it seems to only have around 3 or > 4 and they all located in the .us whilst cvs has dozens around the > world. >=20 > Is there a eu pool of mirrors available to use or if not is their a > way I can apply to host an eu mirror or even 2 eu mirrors. =46rom man portsnap: If you wish to use portsnap to keep a large number of machines up to date, you may wish to set up a caching HTTP proxy. Since portsnap uses fetch(1) to download updates, setting the HTTP_PROXY environment variable will direct it to fetch updates from the given proxy. This is much more efficient than mirroring the files on the portsnap server, since the vast majority of files are not needed by any particular client. So you could set up a public caching Proxy (maybe just for portsnap.freebsd.org) and tell people to use it. Voila. Your very efficient mirror :) - Marius