From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 9 18:44:18 2005 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 59F4516A41F for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 18:44:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC6A443D67 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 18:44:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id jA9IhXiu019245 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:43:34 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:44:04 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200511091224.13143.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <200511091224.13143.kirk@strauser.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511091044.04253.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: cvsup problem 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, 09 Nov 2005 18:44:18 -0000 On Wednesday 09 November 2005 10:24 am, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Wednesday 09 November 2005 10:59, Brian E. Conklin wrote: > > Parsing supfile "/etc/ports-supfile" > > Connecting to cvsup10.us.freebsd.org > > Why is everyone trying to using cvsup10 all of a sudden? I don't > think I've ever made it past 5. There is a port called fastest_cvsup. If you run it, it is supposed to tell you which site will give you the best response. I think the rational is that a mirror close to you will have the least impact. I have also found that the shortest mirror update is not always provided by the best response. Fastest_cvsup will also enumerate which mirrors are not responding. This can be from a failure or they are too busy. If you run a cron job, you don't like to see a lot of failures because they are too busy. If you have a mirror, you can see how they are impacted by a session, which is why I am against cvsuping src, ports, and doc at the same frequency. If you aren't going to rebuild everything, every time you cvsup, don't do it. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html