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Date:      Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:34:23 -0500
From:      Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Downloading a successful INDEX build rtp via freefall?
Message-ID:  <20031028013423.GC390@hal9000.halplant.com>
In-Reply-To: <200310271440.52495.kstewart@owt.com>
References:  <20031027210058.GA41805@perrin.nxad.com> <20031027214840.GW86551@perrin.nxad.com> <200310271408.41913.kstewart@owt.com> <200310271440.52495.kstewart@owt.com>

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Kent Stewart said...

> What I would like to see is a bz2 version of INDEX and INDEX-5 on my favorite 
> local ftp mirror. Grabing them from my gateway machine using anonymous ftp 
> would be much faster than the 2x 20 minutes I spend rebuilding them...

Seconded.

I'm waiting for one to finish on my PII-266[1] running STABLE with 231
ports and it seems to take longer to update INDEX and INDEX.db (with
portsdb -Uu) than to update sources, ports or even build a new world.


[1] http://halplant.com:88/systems.html

-Andrew-
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