From owner-freebsd-hubs Sun Mar 9 17:29:39 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60BE437B401 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 17:29:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from procyon.firepipe.net (procyon.firepipe.net [198.78.66.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E546543F93 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 17:29:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@csociety.org) Received: by procyon.firepipe.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3FAD121FC5; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 17:29:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 17:29:37 -0800 From: Will Andrews To: jason andrade Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Poor state of some top-level FTP mirrors Message-ID: <20030310012937.GA57178@procyon.firepipe.net> References: <20030309215448.GB30033@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:25:25AM +1000, jason andrade wrote: > the methodology of the way the packages tree is set out makes it > very difficult to provide a stable and uptodate mirror. the freebsd > archive is one of the few that has a system which causes an entire package > tree to be rebuilt (and hence refetched) over and over again with > no ability to only fetch updated or changed packages and the packages trees > make up the bulk of the freebsd archive. Please tell us how other OS projects update their packages without this kind of problem. What do they do (or not do) that we don't (or do)? Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message