internal distfiles mirror

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:30:00 -0500
Bjorn Nelson <o_sleep at belovedarctos.com> wrote:

> All,
> 
> I am mirroring ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org's/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles  
> to an internal server that allows other servers to mount it via nfs  
> and install from there.  I am running into the problem where it
> seems that the ports tree gets updated more frequently then ftp2's  
> distfiles directory .  Is there a more up-to-date distfiles server I  
> should mirror or would it be better to just do a make
> fetch-recursive in /usr/ports?

I parse cvsup -L2 logs to build a fetch list for this. It's much
lighter that fetch-recursive.


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