Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:52:08 +0200 From: Marius Nuennerich <marius.nuennerich@gmx.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsnap mirror servers Message-ID: <20060418195208.06cbf2f0@sol> In-Reply-To: <3aaaa3a0604171743y33af6355udf750eca65605920@mail.gmail.com> References: <3aaaa3a0604171743y33af6355udf750eca65605920@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 01:43:52 +0100 Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com> wrote: > How many mirrors does portsnap have, it seems to only have around 3 or > 4 and they all located in the .us whilst cvs has dozens around the > world. >=20 > Is there a eu pool of mirrors available to use or if not is their a > way I can apply to host an eu mirror or even 2 eu mirrors. =46rom man portsnap: If you wish to use portsnap to keep a large number of machines up to date, you may wish to set up a caching HTTP proxy. Since portsnap uses fetch(1) to download updates, setting the HTTP_PROXY environment variable will direct it to fetch updates from the given proxy. This is much more efficient than mirroring the files on the portsnap server, since the vast majority of files are not needed by any particular client. So you could set up a public caching Proxy (maybe just for portsnap.freebsd.org) and tell people to use it. Voila. Your very efficient mirror :) - Marius
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