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Date:      Wed, 5 Sep 2012 09:43:29 +0100
From:      Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com>
To:        "Sergey V. Dyatko" <sergey.dyatko@gmail.com>
Cc:        hubs@freebsd.org, clusteradm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pkgng mirrors
Message-ID:  <09CB99A0-75BC-426C-BD44-9ACC7CD741D1@exonetric.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120905112013.2d44783c@laptop>
References:  <20120905112013.2d44783c@laptop>

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On 5 Sep 2012, at 09:20, "Sergey V. Dyatko" <sergey.dyatko@gmail.com> =
wrote:

> Hi,
>=20
> Today I setup test jail on my laptop with head/amd64 and trying to use
> pkgng, as I can see we have just one(?) host for pkgbeta.freebsd.org:
>=20
> pkgbeta.freebsd.org.    3600    IN      CNAME   ftp.dk.freebsd.org.
> ftp.dk.freebsd.org.     3600    IN      CNAME   ftp.beastie.tdk.net.
> ftp.beastie.tdk.net.    80      IN      A       193.162.146.4
>=20
> that host doesn't respond 'quickly' (for me):
> [tiger@laptop]:~%curl -w '%{time_total}: %{time_connect}
> %{time_starttransfer} %{size_download} \n' -s -o /dev/null
> 'http://pkgbeta.freebsd.org'
> 18,988: 0,003 18,988 3126=20
> I have some 'free' resources for mirroring and ready to become =
official
> mirror.=20
>=20
> That host:
> * already have full ftp mirror (synced @daily from
>  ftp5.ru.freebsd.org)
> * available via rsync/ftp/http for everyone=20
> * have 2x1Gbit interfaces, powered 24x7
> * available free disk space 1.4T
>=20
> In private mail bapt@ wrote "Package beta, is temporary and will be
> removed quite soon (I hope)".
> So my questions is:
> 1) when it will be removed?
> 2) I'm confused...  Is the project does not need more resources ? (5.2
> on [1]).

I believe the plan is to move to a small set of globally distributed
pkgng mirrors which are directly administered by those @freebsd.org, =
while
leaving the existing ad-hoc mirrors in place.

See..

=
http://wiki.freebsd.org/201208DevSummit?action=3DAttachFile&do=3Dget&targe=
t=3Dclusteradm_DevSummit201208_Presentation.key

As for schedules, that's less clear, other than quite soon (2-3 months?)


- Mark=



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