From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 29 03:13:25 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 E30FA16A420 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 03:13:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from donaldjoneill@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F43D43D46 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 03:13:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from donaldjoneill@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 9so908414nzo for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:13:24 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id:from; b=R3VFffKdZgazznAu607ihxIoNu22I4/s5Ux2nZmgiE6yXEkjOApqgYFPHYDYBiJEMa+yfpN9hRsTtWta/+jVTaZ1rR/q4q6dlTbBK/szEgfJZjNxxZetjjv1lRrV6BdkJP5h7OJz3hH8RNOZCmK/m4/O/0kY5yPqILPwHIcaSw8= Received: by 10.36.38.7 with SMTP id l7mr3690790nzl; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:13:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from pres1750.mylan.net ( [68.248.234.164]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 7sm1905251nzo.2006.01.28.19.13.23; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:13:23 -0800 (PST) To: Chris Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 21:13:15 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060128142808.950F.GERARD@seibercom.net> <200601281525.39206.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> <3aaaa3a0601281719v654abcay@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3aaaa3a0601281719v654abcay@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601282113.16239.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> From: "Donald J. O'Neill" 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: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 03:13:26 -0000 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