On Wednesday 02 February 2005 17:08, Robert Huff wrote: > Karol Kwiatkowski writes: > > Someone else should comment on that, but I think updating (cvsup) > > ports tree once a week should be often enough to track changes > > and rare enough to not overload mirrors. > > The other theory involves more frequent (i,e, daily) but > presumably smaller updates. > On the gripping hand ... I'm not convinced the mirrors are > in danger of overload except possibly at the end of a ports freeze. > >
an alternative is to subscribe to freshports portswatch service and be notified of changes to your installed ports and update accordingly. fastest_cvsup (from the ports collection natch) can also be employed to locate the fastest cvsup server for you _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"