Removing CVS from HEAD
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Tue Sep 11 07:29:10 UTC 2012
olli hauer <ohauer at gmx.de> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > There is no port for the server, but there is a script you can use
> > to set up a local mirror of the official servers:
> It's far more easy.
> Use one machine as master, only on this machine you will use the command
> portsnap fetch. Rsync (or whatever preferred) the directory /var/db/portsnap
> to all machines where you want to have the portstree available, on this
> slaves use only the commands portsnap extract/update. Doing this now on a
> couple of machines over a view years without any issues.
I don't see how that is easier than having a local mirror. It adds an
extra step (rsync) which, unlike the simple HTTP requests portsnap uses,
requires authentication.
DES
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