On Jan 29, 2014, at 12:51 PM, Lars Engels <lars.eng...@0x20.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 09:11:04AM -0600, Mark Felder wrote: >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014, at 5:32, Lars Engels wrote: >>> >>> >>> Also using freebsd-update behind a proxy is really slow. Even with a >>> very fast internet connection (normally download rates ca. 3 MBytes / s) >>> downloading all the tiny binary diff files took more than 8 hours. >>> Maybe freebsd-update's backend could create a tarball of all those diffs >>> and provide this? >> >> Even streaming the tar instead of waiting for the freebsd-update server >> to produce the tarball would be an improvement. I have no experience >> doing that over a WAN but I don't see why it would be unreliable. I implemented an export capability for $WORK last year that built and streamed a Zip archive on the fly. It worked rather well even when the archives were multiple gigabytes with tens of thousands of entries. Tim _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
