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goshanecr
December 2nd, 2008, 14:24
I want to organize mirror of portsnap and cvsup server, and distfiles..
Can someone help me with this? What services i need to setup for this?

goshanecr
December 2nd, 2008, 14:26
Sorry, i found answers for distfiles and cvsup on handbook, but how make portsnap mirror?

brd@
December 2nd, 2008, 18:19
The maintainers of Portsnap isn't currently looking for more mirrors. This is because the way that portsnap works, running a mirror is much more intensive than running lots and lots of clients. Thus only a handful of mirrors are really need to support a large amount of clients.

Andrius
December 2nd, 2008, 18:35
What about using caching proxy for portsnap? Something like this: http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2005/06/portsnap-and-squid-at-bsdcan-this-year.html

brd@
December 2nd, 2008, 18:36
That is a good way to handle it if you have a lot of machines. You could also share out the ports tree via NFS or something like that.