On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Daniel Bond wrote:
reading your answer, you are obviously confusing what I am saying about
freebsd-update with the portsnap program. Also, I also wrote in my first post
No i'm not confusing them, just trying to follow two subjects at the same
time. Sorry if that is confusing.
that HTTP_PROXY / Caching proxy server does not help me much. This is because
I download a lot of "initial tarball snapshots".. I would rarely see "Cache
hits" in my proxy log. I guess I could set something up to fetch nightly via
proxy, to keep the data in house, for when I need it. I don't want to use a
PROXY server, I feel this is attacking the problem at the wrong end.
Ok, lets go again. Either you mirror (maybe by having a squid proxy and
walk the tree) and thats going to me even worse for you. Or you use a squid
proxy to keep stuff you need close to you and share among different
installations.
Or you setup one or more national squid proxies and configure your
machines manually just like you do with cvsup.
I agree, I am interested to hear the views of the wise ones. Personally I'm
going back to CVSup until freebsd-update and portsnap mirrors are in a more
distributed or usable state.
At least portsnap started to work for me earlier today. Havn't tried
update yet.
But yes i agree, update and portsnap infrastructure could be done better.
I have some ideas and will try to write them down in a while.
/Chris
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