how to rsync from pkg.freebsd.org

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 08:32:19PM +0200, Christer Solskogen wrote:
> On 13.03.2014 11:29, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 03:37:45PM +0800, Jason wrote:
> >> hi all:
> >>
> >>          I'm from china.we have thousands of machines running on FreeBSD.
> >>          Because the link between china and usa is poor,the pkg instal is
> >> very slow and often failed...
> >>          so we want to build our own pkgng mirror.
> >>          Does the pkg.freebsd.org offer any rsync interface so we can access?
> >
> > This is being worked on, we are experimenting a couple of different ways and
> > will soon communicate on a viable way to do it.
> >
> > Stay tuned :)
> >
> 
> I've stayed, and tuned. Is this possible now?
> 
Just figured out that I never replied to that one.

Sorry but no we do not have such mechanism yet. In the meantime what one could
do is using pkg fetch to create its own mirrors:
pkg fetch -d -o ./mymirror -a
pkg repo ./mymirror

Unfortunatly that won't clean out old packages (a volunteer to add the cleanup
support? :))

Best regards,
Bapt
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