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From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: internal distfiles mirror
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Bjorn Nelson wrote:
> All,
> 
> I am mirroring ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org's/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles to 
> an internal server that allows other servers to mount it via nfs and 
> install from there.  I am running into the problem where it seems that 
> the ports tree gets updated more frequently then ftp2's distfiles 
> directory . 

Yes, that's going to be very consistent.

> Is there a more up-to-date distfiles server I should mirror 
> or would it be better to just do a make fetch-recursive in /usr/ports?

The latter.


hth,

Doug

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