fetchindex questions.

Simon L. Nielsen simon at FreeBSD.org
Wed Nov 24 02:08:56 PST 2004


On 2004.11.23 09:47:49 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 12:10:36AM +0200, Andrey Slusar wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > why ${INDEXFILE} is downloading only from http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ ?
> 
> What other choices are there?

Actually the uncompressed INDEX file is distributed to all FreeBSD web
mirrors.  It will of course not be as up-to-date as the one on
www.FreeBSD.org, but since it should still not be more than 24 hours
old, it probably won't be a problem for most people.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
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