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On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 03:24:01PM -0800, Matt Dillon wrote:
> It would be even better if the ports system could look in two places
> for distfiles ... so I could build up local repository on the NFS
> server that clients would use directly, and still allow clients
> to download distributions into local directories when the NFS server
> doesn't have the request.
I just wrote two articles about the port system.
(rummage, rummage, cut & paste)
Probably the most useful option for maintainers of large FreeBSD
networks is MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE. The network administrator can build
a central repository of important distfiles on a local server. The
site listed in MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE is checked for distfiles before
any remote sites are contacted. This saves on exterior bandwidth and
makes fetching distfiles more reliable.
==ml
PS: Whoa, I knew something Matt Dillon didn't. I feel faint. ;)
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