From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 29 1:41:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-105.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F6C37B43A for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 01:41:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8876D66B27; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 01:41:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 01:41:28 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Alan Eldridge Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: packages-4-stable updates Message-ID: <20011129014128.A55393@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20011129041354.A37216@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+HP7ph2BbKc20aGI" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011129041354.A37216@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>; from alane@geeksrus.net on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:13:54AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --+HP7ph2BbKc20aGI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:13:54AM -0500, Alan Eldridge wrote: > I didn't find this in handbooks or FAQ, but detailed ftp info is kinda > sparse. :( >=20 > How often are ports packages updated in the >=20 > ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable/packages > =20 > directory? Or, maybe a better question is, "What's the trigger to > update that directory?" >=20 > E.g., right now they're a week behind bento's packages-4-full dir. It's a manual process. The package collection is about 4.6GB thesedays, and that causes massive load on the downstream mirrors who have to download all 4.6GB, since the package files have all changed). kris --+HP7ph2BbKc20aGI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8BgLIWry0BWjoQKURAhm6AKDfKCiNf1X2GNVo1xIRWrlkCyShVgCeKiUt pvpO/XzfZwyx9xXw78PIgas= =MnRB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+HP7ph2BbKc20aGI-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message