Re: pkgsrc selfhosting

[Brandon Bergren <bdragon%mailsnare.net@localhost>]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Alistair Crooks wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:03:26PM +0200, Zafer Aydo??an wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > following idea came to my mind:
> >
> > Wouldn't it be great, if pkgsrc would provide all source files
> > (distfiles) by themselves, instead of
> > downloading it from the authors server ?
> >
> > I mean, all distfiles could be prefetched.
> > master_sites would always point to our
> > main server (respectively round robin through our own mirrors).
> >
> > Like it is done on master_backup.
> > Like it is done for binary packages.
> > Like debian is providing the source and the binary packages by themselves.
> >
> > This way NetBSD could provide successful downloads and
> > would not worry about broken or outdated links.
> > No more updating master_sites.
>
> The problem with that approach is the bandwidth of the primary host.

Not to mention that some of the distfiles aren't even *allowed* to be 
mirrored.

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