Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 20:21:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Tim Clewlow <tim1timau@yahoo.com> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup.au.freebsd.org (Hosted on cvsup.planetmirror.com) issues Message-ID: <775462.99681.qm@web50303.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20070405230448.GA49763@k7.mavetju>
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--- Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 08:25:11AM +1000, Christopher Martin wrote: > > I have recently noticed serious issues with collections from the FreeBSD > > source tree maintained on cvsup.au.freebsd.org (cvsup.planetmirror.com), > and > > have sought to compare it to two of the US servers, cvsup3 and cvsup4, and > > have found that cvsup.au.freebsd.org seems to be very wrong, with most of > > the ports tree being deleted when using the Australian mirror. I have also > > tried using cvsup2.au.freebsd.org but I have noticed that it seems to be > > very out of date (when compared to cvsup3.freebsd.org) and frequently > > unavailable (it must only allow a very limited number of clients). All the > > other Australian mirrors are just pointed at these two hosts. I notified > > support@planetmirror.com over a month ago but it has not as yet been > > corrected. > > Although I stopped using cvsup a long time ago (in favour of > portsnap), I did use cvsup3.freebsd.org (internode I think) and > ftp3.au.freebsd.org (pacific.net) because of the same reasons as > above. > > Edwin I am in Australia, and every now and then I try to use the .au cvsup mirrors - but I have basically given up. I now use the american ones by default. Tim ____________________________________________________________________________________ Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097
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