local mirrors of ports and packages?

[Bob Johnson]

On 7/29/08, Coert Waagmeester <coertw2 at gawab.com> wrote:
> Hi all!
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> I am quite new to FreeBSD. I am quite a boffin on Linux though.
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> 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.
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> 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?


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