From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Nov 1 6:19: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from hub.org (hub.org [216.126.84.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B03837B4C5; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 06:19:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by hub.org (8.10.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eA1EJ2p97265; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:19:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:19:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE ... ? In-Reply-To: <3A0024BD.298F8D61@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > "Marc G. Fournier" wrote: > > > Any chance of getting something like that added? We've setup a server on > > campus for the students and faculty to pull from, and have started to > > mirror some of the often used sites, and sourceforge is next ... would be > > nice to be able to pull from here auto-magically, if possible? > > Just drop (me) a note when you will have this mirror up and running, and I'll > add it into bsd.sites.mk. erk, sorry ... its an internal mirror for a campus of >4k students staff and faculty ... I have the server setup so that /usr/src and /usr/ports are open nfs'd for them as well ... my way of making their transition from Linux->FreeBSD as painless as possible :) Its great when you can send out a note on the local newsgroups telling them to add MASTER_* to their make.conf so that it checks locally first, and then you tell the Linux guys "and for you, you'll have to follow the newsgroups to see what is mirrored" ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message