Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:30:37 +0000 From: Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com> To: "Donald J. O'Neill" <donaldjoneill@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portsnap Message-ID: <3aaaa3a0601292130k6dff1dcn@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200601282113.16239.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> References: <20060128142808.950F.GERARD@seibercom.net> <200601281525.39206.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> <3aaaa3a0601281719v654abcay@mail.gmail.com> <200601282113.16239.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com>
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On 29/01/06, Donald J. O'Neill <donaldjoneill@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > As previously mentioned on the 5 boxes, 2 run 5.3 2 run 5.4 1 runs 4.10 as portsnap is included in the base on 5.4 I just used that and it is very fast, on 5.3 and 4.10 I installed from ports and is very slow but this is because it uses an older method to fetch the patches I am told. I will try the -x next time I update. Chris
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