From owner-freebsd-hubs Sun Mar 9 17:33:59 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 5230637B401; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 17:33:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-52.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C43143FBF; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 17:33:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2327466CFB; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 17:33:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 102488D4; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 17:33:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 17:33:56 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: jason andrade Cc: David O'Brien , hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Poor state of some top-level FTP mirrors Message-ID: <20030310013355.GA70336@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030309215448.GB30033@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd" 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 --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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. I suspect you're wrong. Can you provide supporting evidence? Kris --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+a+uDWry0BWjoQKURAiAkAJ9V/OoQTUsVuZXqDzTY2EkhPSWUGwCdGDo/ D9Xueq7buhMgGqco3r6ChLA= =l9kv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message