Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 22:41:44 +0200 From: Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> To: Martin Hanson <greencoppermine@yandex.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg mirrors extremely slow, why not use the ftp mirrors? Message-ID: <CAFYkXjmSUHihg=ea03AaU8HYt_ssX9fBY7Pt5%2BL4V0HfRPBAjA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6094091586626901@vla1-a1bfe7298e26.qloud-c.yandex.net> References: <6094091586626901@vla1-a1bfe7298e26.qloud-c.yandex.net>
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On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 7:42 PM Martin Hanson wrote: > I'm on a gigabit connection in EU, using the "pkg0.bme.freebsd.org" is horrible: +1 on this one :-( Compared to Linux repos where you can fetch really large amount of packages in a seconds we are really behind :-( I can see some improvement in speed recently but its still too slow.. I love PKG system, it saves so much time on compiling, setting up, and maintenance. I know that PKG is using geolocation for better access and that packages need to be signed for security so these repositories are in control of the FreeBSD project.. Maybe creating more smaller mirrors could be helpful? Maybe allowing people to share their broadbands could be helpful? How about creating a dedicated low-power distributed ARM based PKG delivery system that could be burned to a SD card then run from some sort of *Pi device connected to a broadband? This way we could have lots of low power local delivery locations that could act as PKG mirrors :-) I will provide a dedicated thread for that idea to discuss :-) Best regards :-) Tomek -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
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