Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 16:10:28 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what happened to distfiles? Message-ID: <20210326161028.53043059@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <D67771C6-CB9C-49FC-AE4B-C5BD23D27944@xmission.com> References: <D67771C6-CB9C-49FC-AE4B-C5BD23D27944@xmission.com>
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 07:34:59 +0800 wa5qjh wrote: > A little over a week ago, I Think I found distfiles somewhere in > freebsd.org. then a few days later, No more! now I have to goto > distcache.freebsd.org for the particular type and eventually find > digests.txz which is not the old distfiles. The problem with that is > that where I used to be able to download my distfiles while I had > good bandwidth for the times when I didnt, Now, if the net is down, > so to speak, and it's down more than its up here in the boondocks of > the philippines, I'm out of business.No building poudriere or even > some single port. is there some work-around? Why is it easier to download distfiles from freebsd.org rather than from mirrors?
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