Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 20:51:34 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, thierry@herbelot.com Subject: Re: Portsnap is now in the base system Message-ID: <20050809205134.5721f7ae@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <42F8E5B0.9000709@freebsd.org> References: <42F871B4.6000703@freebsd.org> <200508091902.57044.thierry@herbelot.com> <42F8E5B0.9000709@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 10:19:44 -0700 Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote: > Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > Le Tuesday 9 August 2005 11:04, Colin Percival a =E9crit : > >>About 12 hours ago I committed portsnap to HEAD. > >=20 > > I've had a look at the man page(s), and at the web page on=20 > > http://www.daemonology.net/portsnap/ I'm still missing one piece of=20 > > information : how are the ports snapshots initially built ? >=20 > Magic. :-) >=20 > Seriously, I checkout a copy of the ports tree, run `make describes` > three times (for 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x), package up the resulting files, > build some patches, and then throw everything onto my web server. > From there it gets mirrored by another server (and more mirrors will > follow). >=20 > Once I've ironed out all the bugs in the building and mirroring, I'll > make that code available via the projects repository. Could you make it a port (or even import it in the base since the client is now there) ? Or else could we find a way to securely mirror your server ? I think we might be interested to have a local mirror on our user-group rofug.ro server. Thanks, --=20 IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect"
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