Is there any tools can build a mirror of portsnap?

[Wojciech Puchar]

if portsnap could use proxies - it would be simple. but it cant

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Vincent Hoffman wrote:

> Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> simply do portsnap in one place and use rsync to mirror /var/db/portsnap
>>
>> On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Razor wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>   I want to build a mirror server of portsnap in my company. But I
>>> couldn't
>>> find any tools either in ports-mgmt or in google. So is there a tool
>>> can do
>>> this?
>>>
> There is a script in the freebsd cvs repository to mirror the portsnap
> servers, but from the README with it.
>
> "this is not an invitation to start running a portsnap mirror as well.
> There
> is nothing to stop you from mirroring from portsnap[12].freebsd.org,
> but since mirroring consumes ~5GB/month of bandwidth while updating a
> single machine consumes ~5MB/month of bandwidth, adding unnecessary
> mirrors is likely to increase rather than decrease the load on the
> official mirrors.  If in doubt, talk to me (cperciva at FreeBSD.org) first."
>
>
>
> So if you think its worth it (you have 1000 or so clients to upgrade,)
> go look in the cvs repository under projects.
>
>
> Vince
>
>>> Thanks.
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