Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 23:08:17 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Chris Demers <admin@govital.net> Cc: jason andrade <jason@rtfmconsult.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Poor state of some top-level FTP mirrors Message-ID: <20030310070817.GA72834@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20030310064332.M84136@govital.net> References: <20030309215448.GB30033@dragon.nuxi.com> <Pine.GSO.4.50.0303101116080.41-100000@luna.rtfmconsult.com> <20030310013355.GA70336@rot13.obsecurity.org> <Pine.GSO.4.50.0303101139360.41-100000@luna.rtfmconsult.com> <20030310064332.M84136@govital.net>
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--YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 01:58:57AM -0500, Chris Demers wrote: > I took a quick look around to find out just how this was being done and i > couldn't find it. So i'm going to do some assuming and make some suggestions. > Assuming a full package build is normally just pushed out for distribution, > this would cause much unneeded bandwidth usage among all of the mirror sites. > Wouldn't it be just better to maybe keep a record of the fingerprint of a > port and if it matched from the last build not send it out to the mirrors so > that only things that have been updated get pushed out? The only problem with > this method is that it would slow down the build system a bit while it checks > the files. Or maybe instead of just blindly building the entire collection > all the time, keep a database of the versions that have been built and only > build the ones that change. There would have to be some extra checking in > there too to make sure that all dependacys affected by a version change of any > port also get rebuilt, but that method would probably work better as the build > system wouldn't have to work as hard all the time to churn out packages for > ports that rarely change. And then just do a full build from time to time to > double check everything. Not really practical..see my other mail. Kris --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+bDnhWry0BWjoQKURAosLAKDYLOwcE974x2lp5Q4btFjzgYE+nACgxg0K mJ58X5rg5XHV6qgo7ex1nB0= =taRQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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