Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:47:31 -0400 From: "Bob Johnson" <fbsdlists@gmail.com> To: "Coert Waagmeester" <coertw2@gawab.com> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: local mirrors of ports and packages? Message-ID: <54db43990807291347q3960b0d3xdd0b6da606e82f0a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1217359489.26937.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1217359489.26937.3.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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On 7/29/08, Coert Waagmeester <coertw2@gawab.com> wrote: > Hi all! > > > > I am quite new to FreeBSD. I am quite a boffin on Linux though. > > What I would like to know is, how can I make local mirrors of ports and > packages? I live in South-Africa, and bandwidth is painfully slow and > expensive. > > How many data would it be in total? Does fetching from an existing mirror in South Africa help, e.g. cvsup.za.freebsd.org or ftp.za.freebsd.org? -- Bob Johnson fbsdlists@gmail.com
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