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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: new sup server
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> 
> 
> 
>   From: petzi@zit.th-darmstadt.de (Michael Beckmann)
>   Subject: Re: new sup server
>   
>   I must agree with that. I tried to run a sup mirror in Germany, but have
>   never been able to make world or build a kernel with the sources from that
>   mirror. There has always been corruption of the source tree.

Michael,

as I told you before, I cannot quite share your experience. I supped
yesterday -current from sup1.de.freebsd.org to a machine connected
locally and the make world ran perfectly without a hitch. 

I agree with you that the international lines are stuffed up during
daytime in Europe but suping nightly seems to work fine.

> 
> I'm surprised.  Are you talking -current, -stable, or -cvs?
> 
> I build -current trees by suping off of sup2 (i.e. I'm my own customer)
> every few days and have never had a sup-related corruption.
>   
>   Due to the highly loaded intercontinental lines, the sup updates from
>   Freefall can take several hours, and in rare cases, (in particular if
>   freefall doesn't let me in due to its ten user limit) they aren't finished
>   until next night. It appears that the situation has improved somewhat with
>   the new Internet connection of Freefall, though, which doesn't route
>   through MCI/BBNPlanet any more.
>   
>   I would really like to provide some service for up-to-date FreeBSD sources
>   in Europe, but sup simply doesn't work right under these conditions. I
>   wouldn't mind the updates taking several hours, but I do mind getting
>   garbled sources. They cost me a lot of time already.
> 
> Sounds like a big call to fix CTM.
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de