Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:40:40 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> To: "James B. Wilkinson" <jimmy@CS.cofc.EDU> Cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: limited local mirror Message-ID: <20020803124040.C39159@mail.webmonster.de> In-Reply-To: <a0510030ab970f6cf21a9@[153.9.17.27]>; from jimmy@CS.cofc.EDU on Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 11:12:39PM -0400 References: <a0510030ab970f6cf21a9@[153.9.17.27]>
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--GZVR6ND4mMseVXL/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable if you do not want to configure cvsup, you might try using apache as an on-demand proxy which puts the objects into a local mirror hierarchy when they are first requested. for the parts of the distribution that change more often than the rest (ports tree, which is HEAD by default) this doesn't make much sense, so you'd better stick to cvsup. there's also the cvsup-mirror ports which sets up a cvsup mirror alsmost 100% automagically. as a sidenote, it makes sense to look further into cvsup, because there's a myriad of things you will be able to accomplish with it, in daily sysadmin work. just a few points: - distribution of your home directory (login scripts,...) - secure and safe dns data propagation, when using djbdns/tinydns - database backup/replication - cvs repo backup/replication - distribution of web content over loadbalanced clusters - ... do i need to say more? ;-) it's quite a swiss army knife and i prefer it over rsync and other mechanisms, just because it runs (as opposed to rsync's latest versions which will hang for a long time without any visible cause on occassion) regards, /k James B. Wilkinson(jimmy@CS.cofc.EDU)@2002.08.02 23:12:39 +0000: > I planned to lurk here for a while first, but there's been almost no=20 > activity, so here goes: >=20 >=20 > I'm using FreeBSD in a lab in a building that has slow Internet=20 > access, so I'm interested in putting a mirror for just the ports=20 > collection in the lab room. The only information I found at the=20 > website that looked germane was about putting up a full mirror using=20 > CVSup. I was sort of hoping to use ftp and not have to learn yet=20 > another bit of sysadmin business this summer. I don't even need the=20 > entire ports collection, but I need ethereal for sure, and that has=20 > about a dozen dependencies, and I don't know how many more ports=20 > *they* will pull in. It could expand to quite a tree. Right now I see=20 > two problems: getting all those files and putting them where they=20 > need to be without having to type thousands of command lines, and=20 > getting my local server onto the list of places where the other=20 > machines will look for the sources (preferably at the head of the=20 > list). >=20 > I think you can see my problem. Is there a relatively easy way to=20 > handle this? I apologize if I missed something obvious. >=20 > Thanks > --=20 >=20 > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Jimmy Wilkinson | Perfesser of Computer Science > jimmy@cs.CofC.edu | The College of Charleston > (843) 953-8160 | Charleston SC 29424 >=20 > If there is one word to describe me, > that word would have to be "profectionist". > Any form of incompitence is an athema to me. > Metathesis??? Don't ax me. >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message --=20 > Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the > simplicity. --Dennis Ritchie WebMonster Community Project -- Reliable and quick since 1998 -- All on BSD http://www.webmonster.de/ - ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ - http://www.rohrbach.= de/ GnuPG: 0xDEC948A6 D/E BF11 83E8 84A1 F996 68B4 A113 B393 6BF4 DEC9 48A6 REVOKED: 0x2964BF46 D/E 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 BF46 REVOKED: 0x4C44DA59 RSA F9 A0 DF 91 74 07 6A 1C 5F 0B E0 6B 4D CD 8C 44 My mail is GnuPG signed -- Unsigned ones are bogus -- http://www.gnupg.org/ Please do not remove my address from To: and Cc: fields in mailing lists. 1= 0x --GZVR6ND4mMseVXL/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9S7Mos5Nr9N7JSKYRArlxAJ0X//25gVnrFnWrN9YXlEdcccYjiACfYTm6 swlmiyUuYb5bNY46wdyaTdY= =gChc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GZVR6ND4mMseVXL/-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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