From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 30 05:30:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C56F16A420 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:30:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F6FF43D46 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:30:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i31so958722wra for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:30:37 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=mUP4JyaWr1yvSJ3cYAGdOZyAgcwpLKuGIwlBkXaSRA64U6Pl8USJiGNOgJKJrT/oW0VK4REDb6dm9y2TQiPjIEubrmajZf62ZvsmQjpcbwElvy3L/vowojJhErcBjghCjAm+TNphfSc+a4bD6eXOhFw9afLPSeJziTSEENBAeyo= Received: by 10.54.117.15 with SMTP id p15mr3739228wrc; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:30:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.122.17 with HTTP; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:30:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3aaaa3a0601292130k6dff1dcn@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:30:37 +0000 From: Chris To: "Donald J. O'Neill" In-Reply-To: <200601282113.16239.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060128142808.950F.GERARD@seibercom.net> <200601281525.39206.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> <3aaaa3a0601281719v654abcay@mail.gmail.com> <200601282113.16239.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portsnap X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:30:39 -0000 On 29/01/06, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > > On Saturday 28 January 2006 19:19, Chris wrote: > > > > Concerning speed I discovered the version in the ports tree is very > > slow, I have portsnap running zippy when using fetch on 2 5.4 boxes > > which I use the version in the base system, on 2 5.3 boxes and a 4.10 > > box I use the version from ports and portsnap fetch takes about 20-30 > > minutes to fetch 2000 port patches, which takes a few seconds on the > > base version, I discovered the base version doesnt fetch from a url > > but instead of a new server. I contacted the dev and he confirmed > > the ports version is old so I guess the ports maintainer needs to > > update it until that is done I dont reccomend it for 5.3 and older. > > > > Chris > > Hi Chris, > > I run two 6.0 stable boxes at home. I guess that's why one needs to ask > what version of FreeBSD are you using? I'd never used portsnap until I > was trying to put as much speed as I could into setting up the two 6.0 > boxes. I will remeber about 5.3 and older. > > Don > As previously mentioned on the 5 boxes, 2 run 5.3 2 run 5.4 1 runs 4.10 as portsnap is included in the base on 5.4 I just used that and it is very fast, on 5.3 and 4.10 I installed from ports and is very slow but this is because it uses an older method to fetch the patches I am told. I will try the -x next time I update. Chris