From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 30 07:17:54 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 369D9106567A for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:17:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iwrTech@iwr.ru.ac.za) Received: from a.mail.ru.ac.za (a.mail.ru.ac.za [IPv6:2001:4200:1010::25:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6FDF8FC17 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:17:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iwrTech@iwr.ru.ac.za) Received: from iwr.ru.ac.za ([146.231.64.249]:57842) by a.mail.ru.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1KO5wW-000Fa7-H9; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:17:52 +0200 Received: from iwr61.iwr.ru.ac.za ([146.231.64.161]) by iwr.ru.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1KO5wW-000CVt-GH; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:17:52 +0200 From: "DA Forsyth" Organization: IWR To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:17:51 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <489031BF.24263.D0AB29A@iwrtech.iwr.ru.ac.za> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20080730011305.AB5FF1065755@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20080730011305.AB5FF1065755@hub.freebsd.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.41) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Virus-Scanned: a.mail.ru.ac.za (146.231.129.33) Cc: coertw2@gawab.com Subject: Re: local mirrors of ports and packages? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: iwrTech@iwr.ru.ac.za List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:17:54 -0000 On 30 Jul 2008 , freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org entreated about "freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 226, Issue 6": > Yes, I am currently rsyncing: > ftp://ftp.is.co.za/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/ > > Is this the correct data? And where in FreeBSD do I change the mirror > list or installation source? type 'man make.conf' look for 'master site backup'. but, you don't need to download all the packages, only the ones you need to install, surely? When I test installed 7.0R I burnt a set of CD's that contain most common packages for the basic install. After that I fetched ports as needed (after updating the ports tree of course). However, you will find a number of ports that only exist in their own hosts, and never appear on the usual servers, so having a mirror won't help. If you are installing several boxes with the same packages, then download to one and transfer the package files to the others locally. You can do this via flash stick, NFS, ftp, scp, samba share, and probably many other ways. You can also create packages from ports and then transfer your newly created package as needed (I do this for my print servers which have a minimal install and do not have a full ports tree) -- DA Fo rsyth Network Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/