From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 4:46: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C03C137B479 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 04:46:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA01795; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 07:45:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 07:45:53 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Matt Dillon Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cd /usr/ports; make clean Message-ID: <20001120074553.A1776@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20001118231633.A85206@evilcode.com> <200011190635.eAJ6ZRS94516@grumpy.dyndns.org> <20001118230305.A83848@evilcode.com> <20001119151138.A7434@bsdvm.jtjang.idv.tw> <200011192202.eAJM2cG03593@billy-club.village.org> <200011192239.eAJMdDa90818@earth.backplane.com> <200011192308.eAJN8q714360@whizzo.transsys.com> <200011192324.eAJNO1891133@earth.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200011192324.eAJNO1891133@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 03:24:01PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG {cc's trimmed} On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 03:24:01PM -0800, Matt Dillon wrote: > It would be even better if the ports system could look in two places > for distfiles ... so I could build up local repository on the NFS > server that clients would use directly, and still allow clients > to download distributions into local directories when the NFS server > doesn't have the request. I just wrote two articles about the port system. (rummage, rummage, cut & paste) Probably the most useful option for maintainers of large FreeBSD networks is MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE. The network administrator can build a central repository of important distfiles on a local server. The site listed in MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE is checked for distfiles before any remote sites are contacted. This saves on exterior bandwidth and makes fetching distfiles more reliable. ==ml PS: Whoa, I knew something Matt Dillon didn't. I feel faint. ;) -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message