Run your own portsnap mirror?

[Jason Helfman]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:13:38PM +0000, RW thus spake:
>On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:52:01 -0500
>Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
>
>> patrick <gibblertron at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Is there any official way to run a private portsnap mirror? ie. Have
>> > one, external server fetch from the official portsnap sources, and
>> > then internal servers pulling from the private mirror?
>>
>> It runs over pipelined HTTP, so all you need to do is set up a caching
>> HTTP proxy, and have your internal servers use that.
>
>If you are going to do that then you need to set HTTP_PROXY
>and/or http_proxy consistently. If either of these are set portsnap uses
>them to to seed it's choice of server rather than a pure random
>selection.
>
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I would be highly interested in running my own internal portsnap mirror
based on an internal ports tree with local ports, as well.

Has anyone done this?

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