From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 8 03:59:50 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EA072D01 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2014 03:59:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-x22a.google.com (mail-pd0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c02::22a]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BE74A1B7B for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2014 03:59:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f170.google.com with SMTP id p10so3949904pdj.29 for ; Fri, 07 Feb 2014 19:59:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=MxWoXinU+RfpK7Q0+7VVW/SF8cQ35rrivzaWbkAYA7Q=; b=ZGKKrQWhOlzAO0K0eUZQ7guOnqNSCm0cwv+FsRuy2aQHF8bSek0Ck+sJTVNLZtTBdQ m+Myv3XydJSEWf+8UqvVaFx6HZXfHoGu5Mz004K2ZJtkaYDNBtkt0yckoTuOHlznKRxK 26fRrOSxLwrquY/sAOUABW1yqWzeUR/96dM1E1P8uMwg+ZM6ZfSdaTy9itrH+PvhrqQ9 HvRojno4AqUgZ0P7z4guZbw3enxbCeRVtXqQXwPJdzmodzquFRD9Q7el18dlK3ICQgRZ wy7QiZ3pJrPIDhKoO8rwyqsqGqvoW7XTk+ZqAsvi1rgH3eZMj7tuRxH6m7Lwut4tEHmK Gt8w== X-Received: by 10.66.174.165 with SMTP id bt5mr11864070pac.151.1391831990445; Fri, 07 Feb 2014 19:59:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from debian ([223.250.72.105]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id j3sm18860897pbh.38.2014.02.07.19.59.46 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 07 Feb 2014 19:59:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:59:37 +0800 From: iijima yoshino To: Arthur Chance 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 03:59:51 -0000 On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:06:38 +0000 Arthur Chance 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?