fetchindex questions.

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Nov 24 07:22:25 PST 2004


On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 11:08:55AM +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2004.11.23 09:47:49 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 12:10:36AM +0200, Andrey Slusar wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > why ${INDEXFILE} is downloading only from http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ ?
> > 
> > What other choices are there?
> 
> Actually the uncompressed INDEX file is distributed to all FreeBSD web
> mirrors.  It will of course not be as up-to-date as the one on
> www.FreeBSD.org, but since it should still not be more than 24 hours
> old, it probably won't be a problem for most people.

OK, we'd originally talked about only having it on www.freebsd.org.

Kris
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