From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 25 08:42:38 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC8A6106564A for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:42:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pav@FreeBSD.org) Received: from raven.customer.vol.cz (raven.customer.vol.cz [195.250.144.108]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49DE78FC14 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:42:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pav@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [172.19.10.16] (nat-application.b1.lan.prg.vol.cz [195.122.204.152]) (authenticated bits=0) by raven.customer.vol.cz (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n2P8gSK4011795; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:42:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pav@FreeBSD.org) From: Pav Lucistnik To: perryh@pluto.rain.com In-Reply-To: <49c9dbed.5TBY4hi2jHXQa51x%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <1237901632.1849.19.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <49C92F95.3090601@brianwhalen.net> <1237921844.44701.3.camel@hood.oook.cz> <49c9dbed.5TBY4hi2jHXQa51x%perryh@pluto.rain.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-qboRKWYCbLWstu8EwgUg" Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:42:28 +0100 Message-Id: <1237970548.41376.6.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Spam-Score: -2.029 () AWL,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.64 on 195.250.144.108 X-Milter: Spamilter (Reciever: raven.customer.vol.cz; Sender-ip: 195.122.204.152; Sender-helo: [172.19.10.16]; ) Cc: brian@brianwhalen.net, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP multi processor compilations and packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: pav@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:42:39 -0000 --=-qboRKWYCbLWstu8EwgUg Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable perryh@pluto.rain.com p=ED=B9e v st 25. 03. 2009 v 00:23 -0700: > Pav Lucistnik 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, >=20 > presumably addressable by adding bandwidth, which would need to > be included in "the cost ... of acquiring enough hardware ..." Bandwidth is okay, but rsync is just too slow. Serial synchronization on this amount of data does not work feasibly. > > and there is no guarantee that you don't catch an upload in > > progress, which renders whole mirror useless for a time period. >=20 > I would have thought that judicious use of snapshots could avoid > problems with in-progress updates. Yes, but current ftp mirrors does not have enough space to hold several snapshots of same package set. Thus, the need for new platform. --=20 Pav Lucistnik See file. Click file. Get file. --=-qboRKWYCbLWstu8EwgUg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Toto je =?UTF-8?Q?digit=C3=A1ln=C4=9B?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_podepsan=E1?= =?UTF-8?Q?_=C4=8D=C3=A1st?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_zpr=E1vy?= -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAknJ7nQACgkQntdYP8FOsoKZywCgqb5J4ekPj2NgdSj4Lp3PIWR5 GfcAoJJ+ZTPU5flNgSm93SOz0QG/Z9Y0 =xNa3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-qboRKWYCbLWstu8EwgUg--