FreeBSD Git Repository Bundles

[Kyle Evans]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 10:41 AM Chris <bsd-lists at bsdforge.com> wrote:
>
> On 2020-12-29 23:14, Kyle Evans wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > Just an FYI- I spent a little bit of time tonight hacking up a system
> > much like what Linux does[0], generating bundles of our repos for
> > folks on unstable connections and whatnot.
> >
> > I'm currently publishing these bundles to freefall until I get yelled
> > at or until it's replaced by some official service, you can find them
> > at [1].
> >
> > All repos are scheduled to update at 03:30 UTC on Mondays, and all
> > branches are included. Good instructions on example use can also be
> > found at [0].
> We've been providing a cpan mirror for years now (rsync && https).
> I'm happy to accommodate FreeBSD in any way I can. I already host a
> bunch of the source for ports I maintain. So I mirrored your bundles
> on the same host. Speaking of ports, I also went one further, and
> added a distinfo style file for each of the bundles
>
> https://BSDforge.com/bundles/
>
>    265955836   Dec 29 23:01 doc.bundle
>    140         Dec 30 08:15 doc.bundle.sha256
>    1586758704  Dec 29 23:01 ports.bundle
>    145         Dec 30 08:16 ports.bundle.sha256
>    1282394200  Dec 29 22:51 src.bundle
>    141         Dec 30 08:17 src.bundle.sha256
>
> # less ./src.bundle.sha256
>
> TIMESTAMP = 1609345023
> SHA256 (src.bundle) =
> fcab5c72ffd86c6f0e843d8fe0a406ad062a444a0ed1824e93c0500b32971a62
> SIZE (src.bundle) = 1282394200
>
> problems? please report them to the email address this message arrives from.
> :-)
>

Oh, cool, thanks!

I went ahead and partially incorporated this -- the original is now
populated with less-complete sha256/sha512 checksums to match the
established convention for re@ snapshots at least. I like the idea of
also reporting the timestamp/size, but I didn't quite have time/energy
to hack that in tonight (it's a quick-and-dirty lua script).