CVSUP mirrors in the UK and the FreeBSD handbook

Ceri Davies ceri at submonkey.net
Sat Sep 25 00:25:53 UTC 2004


On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 07:46:08PM +0100, Gareth McCaughan wrote:
> The current version of the Handbook says that there are mirrors
> in the UK at cvs{,2,3,4}.uk.freebsd.org . The actual state of
> play at present seems to be that ...
> 
>   - cvsup.uk.freebsd.org is not responding to
>     cvsup connections, although it is pingable
> 
>   - cvsup2.uk.freebsd.org exists but is overloaded
> 
>   - cvsup3.uk.freebsd.org doesn't resolve
> 
>   - cvsup4.uk.freebsd.org has a disastrously out-of-date
>     mirror; when I pointed cvsup at it my ports collection
>     got downgraded (!)
> 
> The first two problems are presumably transient,
> but the other two seem more serious -- especially the
> last. I think the list of cvsup servers could do with
> an update.

cvsup.uk.freebsd.org certainly works; it is where I get my updates from.
The correct list to deal with this is hubs at FreeBSD.org, who I have duly
CC'd.

Ceri

> (I've mailed mirror at teleglobe.net, which I hope is
> the right address, to alert them to the problem with
> cvsup4.)
-- 
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