/usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap

Ceri Davies ceri at submonkey.net
Sun Aug 7 18:38:29 GMT 2005


On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 04:27:53AM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
> Ceri Davies wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 03:35:09AM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
> >>Mirrors can be set up; please contact me for details after I add portsnap
> >>to the base system (there's not much point until then).
> > 
> > I think it would be important to have the FreeBSD.org cluster capable of
> > distributing portsnap builds, and at least have portsnap.FreeBSD.org be
> > the hostname used, before portsnap is brought into the base system.
> > It isn't nice to say, but if anything were to happen to you...
> 
> Ken Smith created the DNS entries for the first two portsnap mirrors (my
> server and a mirror donated by Eric Anderson) about two hours ago.  The
> portsnap builds are being done on secteam-managed hardware, and as soon
> as I'm happy that everything is working correctly I'll send the necessary
> code and instructions to portmgr and secteam about how to set up portsnap
> building and mirroring.

Brilliant, thanks.

Ceri
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