Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 23:12:39 -0400 From: "James B. Wilkinson" <jimmy@CS.cofc.EDU> To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: limited local mirror Message-ID: <a0510030ab970f6cf21a9@[153.9.17.27]>
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I planned to lurk here for a while first, but there's been almost no activity, so here goes: I'm using FreeBSD in a lab in a building that has slow Internet access, so I'm interested in putting a mirror for just the ports collection in the lab room. The only information I found at the website that looked germane was about putting up a full mirror using CVSup. I was sort of hoping to use ftp and not have to learn yet another bit of sysadmin business this summer. I don't even need the entire ports collection, but I need ethereal for sure, and that has about a dozen dependencies, and I don't know how many more ports *they* will pull in. It could expand to quite a tree. Right now I see two problems: getting all those files and putting them where they need to be without having to type thousands of command lines, and getting my local server onto the list of places where the other machines will look for the sources (preferably at the head of the list). I think you can see my problem. Is there a relatively easy way to handle this? I apologize if I missed something obvious. Thanks -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Jimmy Wilkinson | Perfesser of Computer Science jimmy@cs.CofC.edu | The College of Charleston (843) 953-8160 | Charleston SC 29424 If there is one word to describe me, that word would have to be "profectionist". Any form of incompitence is an athema to me. Metathesis??? Don't ax me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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