local mirrors of ports and packages?

[Coert Waagmeester]

On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 16:47 -0400, Bob Johnson wrote:
> On 7/29/08, Coert Waagmeester <coertw2 at gawab.com> wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> >
> >
> > I am quite new to FreeBSD. I am quite a boffin on Linux though.
> >
> > What I would like to know is, how can I make local mirrors of ports and
> > packages? I live in South-Africa, and bandwidth is painfully slow and
> > expensive.
> >
> > How many data would it be in total?
> 
> Does fetching from an existing mirror in South Africa help, e.g.
> cvsup.za.freebsd.org or ftp.za.freebsd.org?
> 
> 
> -- Bob Johnson
>    fbsdlists at gmail.com

Yes, I am currently rsyncing:
ftp://ftp.is.co.za/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/

Is this the correct data? And where in FreeBSD do I change the mirror
list or installation source?


Thank you in advance,
Coert