Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 17:33:56 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: jason andrade <jason@rtfmconsult.com> Cc: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Poor state of some top-level FTP mirrors Message-ID: <20030310013355.GA70336@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.50.0303101116080.41-100000@luna.rtfmconsult.com> References: <20030309215448.GB30033@dragon.nuxi.com> <Pine.GSO.4.50.0303101116080.41-100000@luna.rtfmconsult.com>
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--vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:25:25AM +1000, jason andrade wrote: > the methodology of the way the packages tree is set out makes it > very difficult to provide a stable and uptodate mirror. the freebsd > archive is one of the few that has a system which causes an entire package > tree to be rebuilt (and hence refetched) over and over again with > no ability to only fetch updated or changed packages and the packages trees > make up the bulk of the freebsd archive. I suspect you're wrong. Can you provide supporting evidence? Kris --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+a+uDWry0BWjoQKURAiAkAJ9V/OoQTUsVuZXqDzTY2EkhPSWUGwCdGDo/ D9Xueq7buhMgGqco3r6ChLA= =l9kv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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