Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:28:28 +0200 From: Espen Tagestad <espen@tagestad.no> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD mirror and some issues with Perl (with suggestion for change!) Message-ID: <2EAFBEC4-A13E-448F-959D-86D96381E2B6@tagestad.no>
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From the documentation on how to set up a FreeBSD mirror: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/mirror-howto.html ... there is a paragraf written like this: "ftp/mirror was very popular, but seemed to have some drawbacks, as it is written in perl(1), and had real problems with mirroring large directories like a FreeBSD site." Beeing a user of both FreeBSD and Perl for years (and probably for years to come) I don't find this formulation providing Perl any justice. What's the issue with Perl? That it has to be installed additionally? I don't care about the mirror program itself (I went for the rsync way). Would it be a less drawback if it was written in Ruby or Python? Suggestion for change: "ftp/mirror was very popular, but had real problems with mirroring large directories like a FreeBSD site." regards, Espen Tagestadhelp
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