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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 2002 08:54:30 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>
To:        hubs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.7R is at ftp2 - packages query
Message-ID:  <200210090654.g996sU7P079170@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <20021009021959.GA67417@xor.obsecurity.org> from "Kris Kennaway" at Oct 08, 2002 07:19:59 PM

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Kris Kennaway wrote:
 > They're rebuilt more or less continually (i386 package builds take
 > about 24 hours), but only uploaded every week or so (uploading entails
 > completely replacing the package set, because it's not possible to do
 > much better than that).  The bottom line though is that it's up to you
 > how often you choose to sync to that subtree.

Personally, I have chosen not to mirror packages-*-stable
at all, but simply make it a symlink to the latest release.
Certainly not a perfect solution, but there are space issues
having complete package sets for 4 architectures (soon to
become 5 as the ppc port matures).

Regards
   Oliver

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