Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:01:39 -0400 From: stan <stanb@panix.com> To: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Chris Knipe <savage@savage.za.org> Subject: Re: Building ports with sorces on a local mirror? Message-ID: <20060826210139.GA19232@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <200608261553.36886.josh@tcbug.org> References: <20060826201512.GA17777@teddy.fas.com> <007d01c6c94f$381f42d0$0a01a8c0@superman> <200608261553.36886.josh@tcbug.org>
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On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 03:53:36PM -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Saturday 26 August 2006 15:35, Chris Knipe wrote: > > Look at the cvs-mirror port... > > > > > > Regards, > > Chris. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "stan" <stanb@panix.com> > > To: "Free BSD Questions list" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > > Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 10:15 PM > > Subject: Building ports with sorces on a local mirror? > > > > > I'm in the process of seting up to build a fair number of > > > machines behind a > > > very restrictive firewall (and besides that the outbound link is > > > very slow). > > > > > > What I have in mind is setting up a machine using mirror software > > > to create > > > a local mirror of the FreeBSD site, including the distfiles for > > > the ports tree. > > > > > > Is thee a way to get the ports build system to look for distfiles > > > on this local mirror? > > The cvs-mirror port won't download the distfiles for all of the ports. > Depending on how 'slow' your link is that could be a very daunting > task. True, but at least it's automated (with the perl based mirror script). > > The MASTER_SITES environment variable is probably what you want. man > ports for the details. > OK, Ill check that out. -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
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