From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 7 13:00:31 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCD3D16A41F; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 13:00:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C4A243D48; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 13:00:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr2so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.213]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IKU00HF4RT0DM60@l-daemon>; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 06:53:24 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml4so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.148]) by pd4mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IKU008RFRT0X1E0@pd4mr2so.prod.shaw.ca>; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 06:53:24 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IKU0020IRSZS1@l-daemon>; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 06:53:23 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 05:53:23 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <20050807.211240.75793221.hrs@allbsd.org> To: Hiroki Sato Message-id: <42F60443.2040301@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <42F54DD4.7080901@freebsd.org> <20050807.153425.21897310.hrs@allbsd.org> <42F5BC19.5040602@freebsd.org> <20050807.211240.75793221.hrs@allbsd.org> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050724) Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 13:00:31 -0000 Hiroki Sato wrote: > I meant "too far" as "low bandwidth and intermediate nodes down sometimes". Portsnap runs over HTTP, and respects the HTTP_PROXY environment variable. If I understand your concern, using a local HTTP proxy would be the best option, since it would use far less bandwidth than actually mirroring everything. > So, I would like the server-side bits to be imported if portsnap will > be in the base system. By "server-side", do you mean a) The code which builds the portsnap files, b) The code which mirrors them, or c) The web server (Apache) which actually sits on port 80 and communicates with the portsnap client? Colin Percival