Justin C. Sherrill wrote: > pkgbox.dragonflybsd.org is working now using Joerg's pbulk system to build > pkgsrc packages. (packages/URLs in the report below aren't available > yet.)
Awesome! Great work! > I'm working on getting it automated so that we will always have relatively > fresh binary packages to install from. We'll also want to mirror it. As usual I can mirror it (maybe very gently :) > An idea: > I was messing with this idea before, and pkg_install understands HTTP > redirection codes. We could have a script on a given webserver that > redirects from a known list of binary package mirrors, and ship DragonFly > releases with BINPKG_SITES set to that webserver's address, so that people > could start installing software immediately without either hammering > Matt's connection or having to go through a lot of setup rigamarole. The problem with HTTP is that pkg_add is quite slow because it can't do globbing like it can with FTP. But that's better not having a redirect. Now if we only could do that for cvsup/ftp as well... cheers simon
