On 10 Sep 2012 02:16, "Steven Hartland" <kill...@multiplay.co.uk> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erich Dollansky" < erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com> > > >>> > What if neither is close to me (there are other countries in the >>> > world, not only USA, some are even on the other side of the planet, >>> > btw, did you know?) ? >>> >>> Yes, I am quite aware of it, but I am merely the messenger. Until >>> other subversion mirrors are made available in other parts of the >>> world, only the two in the US are available. I'm sure that will change >>> in time, but for the moment, only the two US mirrors have been >>> announced. >>> >> why stop a system then when the replacement is not up and running? Do >> you want to kill the infrastructure to distribute FreeBSD? > > > Looking at it from the practical side if the replacement architecture > isn't ready yet then it sounds like this needs to be delayed until > such a time that it is. > > Only having two mirrors and both in the US is not really practical, > many of us, in other parts of the globe, will suffer from stupidly > long update times; BDP would really have a bad effect on updates, > and that's assuming the two servers don't just die under the load of > everyone using them. > > So again please consider delaying the switch over until a decent mirror > set is available, in order to prevent serious amounts of frustration > from your user base.
I think people are getting needlessly worried. There is another six months before this happens; more mirrors should be set up by then. Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"