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From: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>
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On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 09:11:04AM -0600, Mark Felder wrote:
>=20
>=20
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014, at 5:32, Lars Engels wrote:
> >=20
> >=20
> > Also using freebsd-update behind a proxy is really slow. Even with a
> > very fast internet connection (normally download rates ca. 3 MBytes / s)
> > downloading all the tiny binary diff files took more than 8 hours.
> > Maybe freebsd-update's backend could create a tarball of all those diffs
> > and provide this?=20
>=20
> Even streaming the tar instead of waiting for the freebsd-update server
> to produce the tarball would be an improvement. I have no experience
> doing that over a WAN but I don't see why it would be unreliable.

Colin, what do you think? Is it possible?

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