Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:47:39 -0800 From: Jason Helfman <jhelfman@e-e.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Run your own portsnap mirror? Message-ID: <20110210224738.GE75122@eggman.experts-exchange.com> In-Reply-To: <20110210221338.400f1f52@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <AANLkTinPvxt85%2BvNaSgVc50cjWCO9XcX62qGoASc2Jo3@mail.gmail.com> <447hd7y8f2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20110210221338.400f1f52@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:13:38PM +0000, RW thus spake: >On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:52:01 -0500 >Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > >> patrick <gibblertron@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > Is there any official way to run a private portsnap mirror? ie. Have >> > one, external server fetch from the official portsnap sources, and >> > then internal servers pulling from the private mirror? >> >> It runs over pipelined HTTP, so all you need to do is set up a caching >> HTTP proxy, and have your internal servers use that. > >If you are going to do that then you need to set HTTP_PROXY >and/or http_proxy consistently. If either of these are set portsnap uses >them to to seed it's choice of server rather than a pure random >selection. > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I would be highly interested in running my own internal portsnap mirror based on an internal ports tree with local ports, as well. Has anyone done this? -- Jason Helfman System Administrator experts-exchange.com http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_4830110.html E4AD 7CF1 1396 27F6 79DD 4342 5E92 AD66 8C8C FBA5
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