Pav Lucistnik <p...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Brian Whalen p??e v ?t 24. 03. 2009 v 12:08 -0700: > > On a related topic, I wonder what the cost would be of acquiring > > enough hardware so that the probability of actually getting a > > package with portupgrade -aP would go up substantially ... > > It's more a question of creating a new delivery platform, because > the currently used ftp mirrorring is useless for packages. The > whole process of synchronizing from upstream server introduces > _days_ of delay into the process,
presumably addressable by adding bandwidth, which would need to be included in "the cost ... of acquiring enough hardware ..." > and there is no guarantee that you don't catch an upload in > progress, which renders whole mirror useless for a time period. I would have thought that judicious use of snapshots could avoid problems with in-progress updates. _______________________________________________ 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"
