On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 06:21:22PM +0300, Antti Harri wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 May 2007, Joachim Schipper wrote:
>
> >Does 'the whole tree' mean
> >ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/i386/* in this
> >case? In that case, don't do that - it puts far too much strain on the
> >mirrors.
>
> What do you suggest I should do if I want to install stuff later on? New
> snapshot overwrites stuff on FTP about once in a week (i386). So about in
> a week there are no more packages that have been build against the base
> I'm running. I'd have to install newer base snapshot if the libraries
> mismatch, wouldn't I?
>
> I doubt it puts *that* much strain on any of the mirrors if I
> fetch the tree once in a two months that I use for a handful of
> installations. Other mirrors (official and unofficial) download
> snapshots/* way more often.
Well, it seems Espie agrees, so who am I?
Still, this is not really necessary. Updating to a newer -current isn't
too bad, and pretty much needed if you want to keep getting/testing the
newest features, anyway; plus, you can always install most of what you
need and build the one or two packages you missed from the ports tree.
If you have room to mirror the entire FTP tree, you certainly have room
to keep a ports tree around, after all.
Mirroring a select subset of packages is a very good idea, of course,
but I don't really see why you'd need to keep everything around.
Joachim
(Disclaimer: you'll not find too much help if something fails to build
from a ports tree three months old. Then again, the same problem is
true for packages.)
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