From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 6 16:42:09 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 194F11065672 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:42:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@arnold.se) Received: from mailstore.infotropic.com (mailstore.infotropic.com [213.136.34.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68D468FC27 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:42:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@arnold.se) Received: (qmail 14538 invoked by uid 89); 6 Jan 2009 16:42:06 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.2.0 ppid: 14529, pid: 14532, t: 0.2698s scanners: attach: 1.2.0 clamav: 0.94/m: Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.123.35?) (chris@arnold.se@85.132.191.39) by mailstore.infotropic.com with ESMTPA; 6 Jan 2009 16:42:06 -0000 Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:42:03 +0100 (CET) From: Christopher Arnold X-X-Sender: chris@localhost To: Daniel Bond In-Reply-To: <08B216B4-79AB-45AB-AB4D-C8CD62196B87@danielbond.org> Message-ID: References: <08B216B4-79AB-45AB-AB4D-C8CD62196B87@danielbond.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) X-message-flag: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Outlook_isn=B4t_compliant_with_current_standards_please_install_another_mail_client!?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update painfully slow - slower than source code build of world and kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:42:09 -0000 On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Daniel Bond wrote: > reading your answer, you are obviously confusing what I am saying about > freebsd-update with the portsnap program. Also, I also wrote in my first post > No i'm not confusing them, just trying to follow two subjects at the same time. Sorry if that is confusing. > that HTTP_PROXY / Caching proxy server does not help me much. This is because > I download a lot of "initial tarball snapshots".. I would rarely see "Cache > hits" in my proxy log. I guess I could set something up to fetch nightly via > proxy, to keep the data in house, for when I need it. I don't want to use a > PROXY server, I feel this is attacking the problem at the wrong end. > Ok, lets go again. Either you mirror (maybe by having a squid proxy and walk the tree) and thats going to me even worse for you. Or you use a squid proxy to keep stuff you need close to you and share among different installations. Or you setup one or more national squid proxies and configure your machines manually just like you do with cvsup. > I agree, I am interested to hear the views of the wise ones. Personally I'm > going back to CVSup until freebsd-update and portsnap mirrors are in a more > distributed or usable state. > At least portsnap started to work for me earlier today. Havn't tried update yet. But yes i agree, update and portsnap infrastructure could be done better. I have some ideas and will try to write them down in a while. /Chris