Hey, On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 18:58:31 +0200, Simone Rota wrote:
Johannes Winkelmann wrote:
You have to trigger updates when a port is updated, and remove unnecessary files after a while (to avoid full HDDs; depending on the quality it's either really easy, or really hard to determine when to remove a file).
I've heard oldfiles in prt-utils works quite well ;)
But then you only support those using the very latest ports tree; experience shows that many download problems are in fact slightly outdated ports trees. The older your crux installation/ports tree is, the more you'd appreciate a distfile mirror. Not that we necessarily should encourage keeping an outdated system... That's what I meant with quality. If we provide mirrors for the very latest crux, it's definitely easy. If you want to support 1 or two versions back, some tracking is needed. Regards, Johannes -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@smts.ch Zurich, Switzerland http://jw.smts.ch