Re: Portsnap is now in the base system

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:58:05 -0400
Alec Berryman <alec_at_thened.net> wrote:

> Ion-Mihai Tetcu on 2005-08-09 20:51:34 +0300:
> 
> > Colin Percival <cperciva_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Once I've ironed out all the bugs in the building and mirroring,
> > > I'll make that code available via the projects repository.
> > 
> > Could you make it a port (or even import it in the base since the
> > client is now there) ? Or else could we find a way to securely
> > mirror your server ? I think we might be interested to have a local
> > mirror on our user-group rofug.ro server.
> 
> There was quite a bit of discussion about this sort of thing on
> freebsd-arch_at_; you may want to check it out.  Because portsnap works
> over HTTP, you could set up a caching proxy and save cycles by not
> recreating the snapshots yourself.

Thanks, that one of the few lists I'm not subscribed on.


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