Re: Call for Foundation-supported Project Ideas

In reply to: tux2bsd via freebsd-hackers : "Call for Foundation-supported Project Ideas"
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From: tux2bsd <tux2bsd_at_protonmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2022 20:43:06 UTC

On Tuesday, November 30th, 2021 at 8:35 PM, tux2bsd <tux2bsd@protonmail.com> wrote:

> Some help to fix freebsd-update , a very longstanding poor performance problem I took the time to investigate and provide an attempt to fix,
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=258863

This was considered and listed, thank you.

> https://wiki.freebsd.org/2021FoundationCFI  ,   freebsd-update improvements
>     https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000552.html

After a recent epiphany I implemented the improvement a different way.

I've written a script that improves the efficiency of updating FreeBSD, here it is:

https://github.com/tux2bsd/freebsd-update-probe

This satisfies my goal, I hope a few other people find it useful.

Thanks
tux2bsd