Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:50:39 +0100 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetchindex questions. Message-ID: <20041125155038.GA755@zaphod.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <20041124152639.GA11568@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <86y8gty1pf.fsf@santinel.home.ua> <20041123174749.GA80041@xor.obsecurity.org> <20041124100854.GG63393@eddie.nitro.dk> <20041124152639.GA11568@xor.obsecurity.org>
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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.
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Simon L. Nielsen
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