how to rsync from pkg.freebsd.org

[Sergey V. Dyatko]

В Thu, 13 Mar 2014 08:07:08 +0000
Matthew Seaman <matthew at FreeBSD.org> пишет:

> On 13/03/2014 07:37, Jason wrote:
> >         I'm from china.we have thousands of machines running on
> > FreeBSD. Because the link between china and usa is poor,the pkg
> > instal is very slow and often failed...
> >         so we want to build our own pkgng mirror.
> >         Does the pkg.freebsd.org offer any rsync interface so we
> > can access?
> 
> I do not believe there are any provisions to mirror pkg.freebsd.org --
> partly this is because of security concerns, and partly because pkg(8)
> and the pkg.freebsd.org repository is still pretty new and there
> hasn't been much demand up to now.
> 
> There are three current sites for pkg.freebsd.org -- US East, US West
> and UK -- which leaves Asia[*]without any sort of local service.  If
> there are any well-connected FreeBSD users in India, China, Japan, S.
> Korea, Singapore, Eastern Russia etc. who would be prepared to donate
> the bandwidth and datacentre space and possibly some hardware, then
> I'm sure the project would be very interested in adding some more
> locations. Probably the thing to do would be to approach the FreeBSD
> Foundation, who will be able to give some information about how much
> storage space and bandwidth would be required.
> 

you forget  Russia ;-)
pkg.ydx.f.o

> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
> [*] Not to mention Australasia or S. America[+]
> 
> [+] Or Antarctica, but I don't think there are too many FreeBSD users
> on that continent.
> 




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