On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 05:52:54PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > dpb -F can now replace both 'make mirror-maker' and 'link-checksums', > with greater accuracy, simpler usage, and better speed. > > It's expected to get a few more goodies over the coming weeks (such as > noticing when distfiles move, avoiding refetches) > > Expect the old tools to get garbage-collected in the near future, most > probably right after 5.1.
And fwiw, ftp.fr.openbsd.org now uses dpb -F to mirror distfiles instead of the previous method. syncing (when not a lot of new distfiles appeared) used to last ~100/120mn, it's now around 50mn (yeah, it's a slow machine) Landry
