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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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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

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