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Date:      Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:05:38 -0800
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bjorn Nelson <o_sleep@belovedarctos.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.Org
Subject:   Re: internal distfiles mirror
Message-ID:  <43A9DFC2.4010209@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <090F429F-D173-4CBF-84E2-F3952449E1FA@belovedarctos.com>
References:  <200512211001.jBLA1AGD083539@freefall.freebsd.org>	<23ADE556-01C7-4E87-AB2E-A70DBCD1D7C0@insidesystems.net> <090F429F-D173-4CBF-84E2-F3952449E1FA@belovedarctos.com>

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Bjorn Nelson wrote:
> All,
> 
> I am mirroring ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org's/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles to 
> an internal server that allows other servers to mount it via nfs and 
> install from there.  I am running into the problem where it seems that 
> the ports tree gets updated more frequently then ftp2's distfiles 
> directory . 

Yes, that's going to be very consistent.

> Is there a more up-to-date distfiles server I should mirror 
> or would it be better to just do a make fetch-recursive in /usr/ports?

The latter.


hth,

Doug

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