Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:59:37 +0800 From: iijima yoshino <iijimayoshino@gmail.com> To: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there any repo or mirror for pkg ? Message-ID: <20140208115937.1fa35eb48cb8a18aed890fc1@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <52F4E86E.1020605@qeng-ho.org> References: <20140207213951.2e95cb577d11e06955ebd2bd@gmail.com> <52F4E86E.1020605@qeng-ho.org>
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On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:06:38 +0000 Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> wrote: > On 07/02/2014 13:39, iijima yoshino wrote: > > Hello, there! > > Now the old pkg_tools have been removed from base system. > > And FreeBSD has got a new package management tool pkg instead. > > It's easy to use and that's good. > > Because I'm in China Mainland, the speed is still very very low, even lost connection to the server. > > When I open the adress "pkgbeta.freebsd.org" in Firefox , it shows something and you can try it yourself. > > In my opinion, there are only three repos in the world now, east/west USA and Europe. > > Is that true ? Or Any way to get fast connection when using pkg ? > > You could always install poudriere and build your own customised repo. > That's what I do, as I run customised systems and not all standard > packages built with default options run on my machines. > > It obviously depends on which packages you use and how powerful your > machine is, but it takes around 18 hours to build the repo I use, and > you only need to rebuild it if you need a new feature or if there's a > security vulnerability. > Thanks for your advice. But I think it's not worth to build a customised repo for my old pc. Compared with ports, I prefer to use the packages as a desktop user. Will there be some repos like old pkg_tools' mirrors in the future?
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