Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 15:27:31 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> Subject: Re: distfiles Message-ID: <20050523152528.X47072@mail.goinet.com> In-Reply-To: <308aee5989627f3ea158cfd02e768c55@mac.com> References: <200505231003.14908.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> <308aee5989627f3ea158cfd02e768c55@mac.com>
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Not to mention a greivous misuse of throughput of the servers on the other side. Ick. :( Might I suggest that this isn't the wisest route to go and manage ports from sources rather than binaries? Build it on one machine, make sure it works, then 'make package' and install that binary on the rest of your systems, or at least only grab the packages you need? Grabbing the full collection of distfiles from an ftp server, for lack of a better term, is rude. :P Now if someone had set up a bittorrent of it, then I wouldn't take exception, but that really doesn't seem like the best use of resources. Tony On Mon, 23 May 2005, Charles Swiger wrote: > On May 23, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Vizion wrote: >> Does anyone happen to know the size of a full collection of distfiles? > > About 25 to 30 GB. > >> Presumably it could be obtained by cvsup using the command distfiles-all? > > No, cvsup deals with the ports skeleton itself, not with the distfiles. Try: > > cd /usr/ports > make fetch > > ...and be prepared to wait and consume excessive disk space... > > -- > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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