Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 09:11:04 -0600 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update Message-ID: <1390662664.13404.75208481.39F16B29@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <20140125113236.GX86491@e-new.0x20.net> References: <lblts0$9o1$1@ger.gmane.org> <CAJ5UdcO6V_YnyoJSA=JRL_D7vFzZ8yXcKnh2QcjNQDskbpE98w@mail.gmail.com> <5F09668C-0DEA-4074-A06C-BC4D29F92368@FreeBSD.org> <201401211149.45793.jhb@freebsd.org> <CAN6yY1uiNcWPuJL=O6osDhZci_YBXe7tRW0Nt_cUy25cCTbALQ@mail.gmail.com> <52E2C1BC.10202@allanjude.com> <20140125113236.GX86491@e-new.0x20.net>
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On Sat, Jan 25, 2014, at 5:32, Lars Engels wrote: > > > 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? 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.
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