Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:17:42 +0100 From: Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt@FreeBSD.org> To: gareth <bsd@lordcow.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: caching problems Message-ID: <20080222211742.ed8a1c17.ehaupt@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080222172210.GA31869@lordcow.org> References: <20080222172210.GA31869@lordcow.org>
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> hey guys, our proxy is caching extremely old copies of the ports index > and portaudit databases from freebsd.org. our admins claim that they > cache the following files i need normally: > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/auditfile.tbz > http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/INDEX-6.bz2 > > since they have no no-cache pragma directives, and our admins won't > budge on their 'policy'. is the freebsd site breaking standards in > this way? is it feasible to add the directives? if not my solution > is to mirror the files elsewhere and specify this mirror - for > portaudit i see you can specify it in /usr/local/etc/portaudit.conf, > but i can't see where to specify an alternate url for 'portsdb -F' > to use? You could host the INDEX file on a mirror running a webserver on a non standard port. Then you could add something like this to /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf: ENV['MASTER_SITE_INDEX'] = "http://your.index.mirror.tld:81/" Although adjusting the cache policy seems more reasonable to me. Emanuel -- GnuPG key id: 0x90215DB9 Download: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371 Key fingerprint: 741B C70F 100B F360 0B52 E92D 5F01 7A86 9021 5DB9
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