From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 29 22:23:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 485EB1065671 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:23:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEF9E8FC13; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:23:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <488F984A.6070704@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:23:06 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Coert Waagmeester References: <1217359489.26937.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1217359489.26937.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: local mirrors of ports and packages? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:23:06 -0000 Coert Waagmeester wrote: > Hi all! > > > > I am quite new to FreeBSD. I am quite a boffin on Linux though. > > What I would like to know is, how can I make local mirrors of ports and > packages? I live in South-Africa, and bandwidth is painfully slow and > expensive. > > How many data would it be in total? Consider that if bandwidth is expensive then you probably don't want to download data you are not going to use. The ports tree is only a few hundred MB uncompressed (about 50MB or so compressed), and cvsup or portsnap updates are small (you only download the changes). That is presumably the best option. If you want to mirror the full ports CVS repository it is a few GB. If you want to mirror packages, then you're looking at tens of gigabytes that are updated every few days. Kris