Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:01:27 +0300 From: Yousef Raffah <yraffah@savola.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsnap mirror servers Message-ID: <1145707287.44061.4.camel@redevil.savola.com> In-Reply-To: <44491437.8040306@freebsd.org> References: <3aaaa3a0604171743y33af6355udf750eca65605920@mail.gmail.com> <44456BC2.1050102@freebsd.org> <200604211440.28535.benlutz@datacomm.ch> <1145629460.3188.27.camel@dell8600.dlib.vt.edu> <44491437.8040306@freebsd.org>
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--=-me7u8PYLVRk2iUfOrbqc Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 10:19 -0700, Colin Percival wrote: > Paul Mather wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 14:40 +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: > >> Hm, but I see a quite noticeable speed difference between portsnap1 an= d=20 > >> portsnap2. The second one is quite a bit faster. >=20 > I'll look into this over the summer. >=20 > > I notice that on 4.x portsnap never finds any mirrors because the grep > > of the output returned by "host -t srv ..." is not appropriate for 4.x'= s > > version of /usr/bin/host, which produces output different to that of 5.= x > > onwards (a BIND8 vs BIND9 issue, I guess). So, maybe because of this, > > all of the portsnaps running on 4.x machines are hitting the same serve= r > > each time instead of randomly choosing a mirror, thereby causing that > > mirror to be a bit more loaded? >=20 > They are hitting the same server, but that server is portsnap2 (which is > also portsnap.daemonology.net, which is the default server for pre-1.0 > versions of portsnap from the ports tree). Given that most systems runni= ng > portsnap are FreeBSD 6.0 or 6.1, this doesn't cause much differential > loading. >=20 Not sure if this is offtopic but I always had problems with portsnap and it never worked for me, therefore, I dumped it for cvsup. Here is what I get: # portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found. Fetching snapshot tag... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Updating from Tue Apr 18 03:16:17 AST 2006 to Sat Apr 22 14:30:08 AST 2006. Fetching 4 metadata patches. done. Applying metadata patches... done. Fetching 4 metadata files... /usr/sbin/portsnap: cannot open 22d2106522d8940cbe1385cae5dd831e247ce85793d0423f367656ed0dfda82d.gz: No such file or directory metadata is corrupt. I'm using 6.1-RC built on Apr 18 but that problem was there even on 6.0-RELEASE --=-me7u8PYLVRk2iUfOrbqc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEShsXH9IXMb4e6CMRAhC3AJ4usBOTXdD7edqmeevtDKzCDhxRBQCfXu2C rT0tOHgvEeDYhjQtGvoQbTM= =GFSP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-me7u8PYLVRk2iUfOrbqc--
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