From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 9 17:51:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BE3F16A420 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:51:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@people.tecnik93.com) Received: from relay.rdsnet.ro (gimli.rdsnet.ro [193.231.236.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CBFF043D55 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:51:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@people.tecnik93.com) Received: (qmail 1475 invoked from network); 9 Aug 2005 17:51:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.rdsnet.ro) (62.231.74.130) by smtp1-133.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 9 Aug 2005 17:51:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 13082 invoked by uid 89); 9 Aug 2005 17:51:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.tecnik93.com) (81.196.204.98) by 0 with SMTP; 9 Aug 2005 17:51:37 -0000 Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (localhost.buh.tecnik93.com [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D06F114C6; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 20:51:35 +0300 (EEST) Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 20:51:34 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Colin Percival 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.12 (GTK+ 2.6.8; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, thierry@herbelot.com Subject: Re: Portsnap is now in the base system X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:51:42 -0000 On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 10:19:44 -0700 Colin Percival 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"