From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 27 17:34:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE12E16A4CE for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:34:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from lakemtao01.cox.net (lakemtao01.cox.net [68.1.17.244]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E57AB43FB1 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:34:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from A.J.Caines@halplant.com) Received: from mail.halplant.com ([68.98.153.175]) by lakemtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20031028013425.RVFO7826.lakemtao01.cox.net@mail.halplant.com> for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:34:25 -0500 Received: by mail.halplant.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C7CF41E; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:34:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:34:23 -0500 From: Andrew J Caines To: ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031028013423.GC390@hal9000.halplant.com> Mail-Followup-To: ports@freebsd.org References: <20031027210058.GA41805@perrin.nxad.com> <20031027214840.GW86551@perrin.nxad.com> <200310271408.41913.kstewart@owt.com> <200310271440.52495.kstewart@owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200310271440.52495.kstewart@owt.com> Organization: H.A.L. Plant X-PGP-Fingerprint: C59A 2F74 1139 9432 B457 0B61 DDF2 AA61 67C3 18A1 X-Powered-by: FreeBSD 4.9-RC X-URL: http://halplant.com:88/ X-Yahoo-Profile: AJ_Z0 X-ICQ: 283813972 Importance: Normal User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: Downloading a successful INDEX build rtp via freefall? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Andrew J Caines List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 01:34:28 -0000 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- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 |