Re: local mirrors of ports and packages?
On 30 Jul 2008 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] entreated about freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 226, Issue 6: Message: 26 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:24:49 +0200 From: Coert Waagmeester [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: local mirrors of ports and packages? To: FreeBSD-questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Hi all! I am quite new to FreeBSD. I am quite a boffin on Linux though. 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. How many data would it be in total? Hi Coert LOTS of data (-: But, there is a SA mirror or two, so you don't have to do it yourself http://freebsd.mirror.ac.za/ ftp://freebsd.mirror.ac.za ftp://ftp.za.freebsd.org/ Thanks in advance, Coert FreeBSD newbie I've been running several servers on FreeBSD since 2004 and sometimes I still feel like a newby. I run Fedora at home. -- DA Fo rsythNetwork Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: local mirrors of ports and packages?
On 30 Jul 2008 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] entreated about freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 226, Issue 6: Yes, I am currently rsyncing: ftp://ftp.is.co.za/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/ Is this the correct data? And where in FreeBSD do I change the mirror list or installation source? type 'man make.conf' look for 'master site backup'. but, you don't need to download all the packages, only the ones you need to install, surely? When I test installed 7.0R I burnt a set of CD's that contain most common packages for the basic install. After that I fetched ports as needed (after updating the ports tree of course). However, you will find a number of ports that only exist in their own hosts, and never appear on the usual servers, so having a mirror won't help. If you are installing several boxes with the same packages, then download to one and transfer the package files to the others locally. You can do this via flash stick, NFS, ftp, scp, samba share, and probably many other ways. You can also create packages from ports and then transfer your newly created package as needed (I do this for my print servers which have a minimal install and do not have a full ports tree) -- DA Fo rsythNetwork Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On 30 Jul 2008 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] entreated about freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 226, Issue 6: Message: 26 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:24:49 +0200 From: Coert Waagmeester [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: local mirrors of ports and packages? To: FreeBSD-questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Hi all! I am quite new to FreeBSD. I am quite a boffin on Linux though. 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. How many data would it be in total? Hi Coert LOTS of data (-: But, there is a SA mirror or two, so you don't have to do it yourself http://freebsd.mirror.ac.za/ ftp://freebsd.mirror.ac.za ftp://ftp.za.freebsd.org/ Thanks in advance, Coert FreeBSD newbie I've been running several servers on FreeBSD since 2004 and sometimes I still feel like a newby. I run Fedora at home. -- DA Fo rsythNetwork Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: local mirrors of ports and packages?
On 7/29/08, Coert Waagmeester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I am quite new to FreeBSD. I am quite a boffin on Linux though. 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. 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? -- Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: local mirrors of ports and packages?
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 16:47 -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: On 7/29/08, Coert Waagmeester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I am quite new to FreeBSD. I am quite a boffin on Linux though. 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. 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? -- Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, I am currently rsyncing: ftp://ftp.is.co.za/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/ Is this the correct data? And where in FreeBSD do I change the mirror list or installation source? Thank you in advance, Coert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: local mirrors of ports and packages?
Coert Waagmeester wrote: Hi all! I am quite new to FreeBSD. I am quite a boffin on Linux though. 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. How many data would it be in total? Consider that if bandwidth is expensive then you probably don't want to download data you are not going to use. The ports tree is only a few hundred MB uncompressed (about 50MB or so compressed), and cvsup or portsnap updates are small (you only download the changes). That is presumably the best option. If you want to mirror the full ports CVS repository it is a few GB. If you want to mirror packages, then you're looking at tens of gigabytes that are updated every few days. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
