Downloading a successful INDEX build rtp via freefall?

[Andrew J Caines]

Kent Stewart said...

> What I would like to see is a bz2 version of INDEX and INDEX-5 on my favorite 
> local ftp mirror. Grabing them from my gateway machine using anonymous ftp 
> would be much faster than the 2x 20 minutes I spend rebuilding them...

Seconded.

I'm waiting for one to finish on my PII-266[1] running STABLE with 231
ports and it seems to take longer to update INDEX and INDEX.db (with
portsdb -Uu) than to update sources, ports or even build a new world.


[1] http://halplant.com:88/systems.html

-Andrew-
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