Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:23:25 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: pav@freebsd.org Cc: brian@brianwhalen.net, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP multi processor compilations and packages Message-ID: <49c9dbed.5TBY4hi2jHXQa51x%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <1237921844.44701.3.camel@hood.oook.cz> References: <1237901632.1849.19.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <49C92F95.3090601@brianwhalen.net> <1237921844.44701.3.camel@hood.oook.cz>
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Pav Lucistnik <pav@freebsd.org> wrote: > Brian Whalen p??e v ?t 24. 03. 2009 v 12:08 -0700: > > On a related topic, I wonder what the cost would be of acquiring > > enough hardware so that the probability of actually getting a > > package with portupgrade -aP would go up substantially ... > > It's more a question of creating a new delivery platform, because > the currently used ftp mirrorring is useless for packages. The > whole process of synchronizing from upstream server introduces > _days_ of delay into the process, presumably addressable by adding bandwidth, which would need to be included in "the cost ... of acquiring enough hardware ..." > and there is no guarantee that you don't catch an upload in > progress, which renders whole mirror useless for a time period. I would have thought that judicious use of snapshots could avoid problems with in-progress updates.
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