Re: building a distribution server

[Matthew Seaman]

Wojciech Puchar wrote:

the biggest slow down is the downloading of files.  just sitting watching
things i would say 70% of the time is downloading files.  is there a way

where i can build a distribution server that has everything i could possibly

make fetch-recursive in every port you wan'tto install

  portupgrade -FrRa

will fetch the vast majority of distfiles you'll need in one shot.
Probably all of them unless you start changing port OPTIONS or you're
using restricted download stuff like java/jdk16

        Cheers,

        Matthew

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