From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 7 10:40:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B47016A41F for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 10:40:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC41843D5F for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 10:40:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd5mr8so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr8so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.184]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IKU002W2LEM1I40@l-daemon> for freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 04:35:10 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml4so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.148]) by pd5mr8so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IKU006V9LEM95A0@pd5mr8so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 04:35:10 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IKU00713LEMBB@l-daemon> for freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 04:35:10 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 03:35:09 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <20050807095644.GA54096@frontfree.net> To: Xin LI Message-id: <42F5E3DD.8010100@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <42F47C0D.2020704@freebsd.org> <42F51979.2020509@FreeBSD.org> <42F54DD4.7080901@freebsd.org> <20050807.153425.21897310.hrs@allbsd.org> <20050807095644.GA54096@frontfree.net> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050724) Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 10:40:03 -0000 Xin LI wrote: > It would be very important > to set up mirror in the mainland China, as the network here is divided > into three networks, with poor interconnection. Moreover, many > universities will have to pay expensive bandwidth fee if the only > server is not located in the mainland China, which is quite discouraging > when you advocate something in the universities. Mirrors can be set up; please contact me for details after I add portsnap to the base system (there's not much point until then). Colin Percival