From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 26 20:41:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69BC616A439 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:41:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE3C243D6B for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:41:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 564041A4E65; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:41:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8059E55C15; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:41:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:41:02 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Panagiotis Christias Message-ID: <20060426204102.GA72382@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20060424165021.GA1367@lena.kiev> <444D1BEF.5010704@computer.org> <20060424222727.GA20219@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060424234755.GA21411@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Obsolete packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:41:12 -0000 --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:23:31PM +0300, Panagiotis Christias wrote: > Well, speaking as the maintainer of the ftp.gr.freebsd.org mirror site > I would say that in this case the monolithic form of the FreeBSD FTP > repository is a drawback. Mirroring around 350GB/1.600.000 files, or > even a subset, is a difficult (see insufficient) task. Separating the > repository and the mirroring process in parts (releases, packages > etc.) could be a solution.. Please raise any suggestions you have for improving the process on the mirror operators list, thanks. Kris --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFET9reWry0BWjoQKURAlp1AKCKrwU2FUHgMvtn2aLnVULuP8o/lwCdH39u J//0E9oppl8LdP+d43PBzUg= =HdqL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV--