From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 10 10:28:39 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EB6B1065680 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:28:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from espen@tagestad.no) Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com (mail-we0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F8A58FC17 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:28:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wern13 with SMTP id n13so4145900wer.13 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:28:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=from:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:subject:date:message-id :to:mime-version:x-mailer:x-gm-message-state; bh=Im4fyXA/Q1t02OIExDky5mg40RYZpPMRtzlWLnBDBfg=; b=ozrp12rHRfTpPrYBDxy0nNB6Wu6a6ejN3t1mxA+ZoWTNSJKVPsIUl2b3NnIcwa8+oh vlB7UDJCVZHsgpda1BmviKfyX3LtMzuiDP9PCpZtal6ZbXMJwzhyRZI31Na05TaUD2Mb uq4My1vHSrgpqXR7b0lCLnnYP4xBkP2WbefRd7TtdhTL8tarv0sJ25u0QNdvlgRanwdz 3CsSWr+UoGhXqut6Eo29Rb2PhjG1s8OJWJ1lnc+MLa3CWxVc67yImCWYNBnYLl4vVQcN E7of5v/hUBWmzYMHFe+dgt3zpLahIud1VwDSbWRgfsoVh0a498Hw2HTngVECt7xbBXBQ d1bg== Received: by 10.180.104.231 with SMTP id gh7mr5676150wib.10.1334053717589; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:28:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kit-mac-espent.mid.no (home.kulturit.no. [195.159.218.126]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 17sm38372380wis.0.2012.04.10.03.28.35 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:28:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Espen Tagestad Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:28:28 +0200 Message-Id: <2EAFBEC4-A13E-448F-959D-86D96381E2B6@tagestad.no> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1257) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1257) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmuo2ntirlwbxQHKb+BXIJ3SYnr1eXJH1Vi+vMWbG92q/TZpS2wUJfZB8WpdEM2/x5SgL0I Subject: FreeBSD mirror and some issues with Perl (with suggestion for change!) X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:28:39 -0000 =46rom the documentation on how to set up a FreeBSD mirror:=20 = http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/mirror-howto.html= ... there is a paragraf written like this:=20 "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 Tagestad=