From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 25 15:50:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59C0016A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 15:50:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zaphod.nitro.dk (port324.ds1-khk.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.113.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE3B543D31 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 15:50:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from simon@zaphod.nitro.dk) Received: by zaphod.nitro.dk (Postfix, from userid 3000) id 53F8311A5B; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:50:39 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:50:39 +0100 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20041125155038.GA755@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <86y8gty1pf.fsf@santinel.home.ua> <20041123174749.GA80041@xor.obsecurity.org> <20041124100854.GG63393@eddie.nitro.dk> <20041124152639.GA11568@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041124152639.GA11568@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetchindex questions. X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 15:50:41 -0000 --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2004.11.24 07:26:39 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 11:08:55AM +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > On 2004.11.23 09:47:49 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 12:10:36AM +0200, Andrey Slusar wrote: > > > >=20 > > > > Hi, > > > >=20 > > > > why ${INDEXFILE} is downloading only from http://www.FreeBSD.org/po= rts/ ? > > >=20 > > > What other choices are there? > >=20 > > Actually the uncompressed INDEX file is distributed to all FreeBSD web > > mirrors. It will of course not be as up-to-date as the one on > > www.FreeBSD.org, but since it should still not be more than 24 hours > > old, it probably won't be a problem for most people. >=20 > OK, we'd originally talked about only having it on www.freebsd.org. Well, it has actually been there for the last 5 years from a quick look at cvsweb - it just hasn't been up-to-date before /ports/ started to use "your" updated INDEX file. For some reason INDEX (not INDEX-5) is being installed in the /ports/ directory on the web server, which is then mirrored. I noticed this not too long ago in the log for my local cvsup mirror. Since INDEX does not change much most of the time it has probably not been a problem, even though INDEX is now much larger than 5 years ago. I don't know if we should use the INDEX file on the web mirrors, but unless we explicitly remove INDEX it is a possibility. --=20 Simon L. Nielsen --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBpf9Oh9pcDSc1mlERAhLXAKC1LzMP0kRRQQVnvSB3jeapn5vkqACghPUZ GnnqydWV/t58UyPA8Pa/Yko= =K47h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu--