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To: petzi@zit.th-darmstadt.de (Michael Beckmann)
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Subject: Re: new sup server 
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  From: petzi@zit.th-darmstadt.de (Michael Beckmann)
  Subject: Re: new sup server
  
  I must agree with that. I tried to run a sup mirror in Germany, but have
  never been able to make world or build a kernel with the sources from that
  mirror. There has always been corruption of the source tree.

I'm surprised.  Are you talking -current, -stable, or -cvs?

I build -current trees by suping off of sup2 (i.e. I'm my own customer)
every few days and have never had a sup-related corruption.
  
  Due to the highly loaded intercontinental lines, the sup updates from
  Freefall can take several hours, and in rare cases, (in particular if
  freefall doesn't let me in due to its ten user limit) they aren't finished
  until next night. It appears that the situation has improved somewhat with
  the new Internet connection of Freefall, though, which doesn't route
  through MCI/BBNPlanet any more.
  
  I would really like to provide some service for up-to-date FreeBSD sources
  in Europe, but sup simply doesn't work right under these conditions. I
  wouldn't mind the updates taking several hours, but I do mind getting
  garbled sources. They cost me a lot of time already.

Sounds like a big call to fix CTM.