pkgng mirrors

Mark Blackman mark at exonetric.com
Wed Sep 5 08:43:34 UTC 2012


On 5 Sep 2012, at 09:20, "Sergey V. Dyatko" <sergey.dyatko at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Today I setup test jail on my laptop with head/amd64 and trying to use
> pkgng, as I can see we have just one(?) host for pkgbeta.freebsd.org:
> 
> pkgbeta.freebsd.org.    3600    IN      CNAME   ftp.dk.freebsd.org.
> ftp.dk.freebsd.org.     3600    IN      CNAME   ftp.beastie.tdk.net.
> ftp.beastie.tdk.net.    80      IN      A       193.162.146.4
> 
> that host doesn't respond 'quickly' (for me):
> [tiger at laptop]:~%curl -w '%{time_total}: %{time_connect}
> %{time_starttransfer} %{size_download} \n' -s -o /dev/null
> 'http://pkgbeta.freebsd.org'
> 18,988: 0,003 18,988 3126 
> I have some 'free' resources for mirroring and ready to become official
> mirror. 
> 
> That host:
> * already have full ftp mirror (synced @daily from
>  ftp5.ru.freebsd.org)
> * available via rsync/ftp/http for everyone 
> * have 2x1Gbit interfaces, powered 24x7
> * available free disk space 1.4T
> 
> In private mail bapt@ wrote "Package beta, is temporary and will be
> removed quite soon (I hope)".
> So my questions is:
> 1) when it will be removed?
> 2) I'm confused...  Is the project does not need more resources ? (5.2
> on [1]).

I believe the plan is to move to a small set of globally distributed
pkgng mirrors which are directly administered by those @freebsd.org, while
leaving the existing ad-hoc mirrors in place.

See..

http://wiki.freebsd.org/201208DevSummit?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=clusteradm_DevSummit201208_Presentation.key

As for schedules, that's less clear, other than quite soon (2-3 months?)


- Mark


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