cvsup takes too long?
martin at rakupottery.org.uk
martin at rakupottery.org.uk
Tue Nov 28 20:46:11 GMT 2006
Ceri Davies writes:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:24:59PM +0000, Progga wrote:
>>
>> I was updating the ports collection inside a jail using CVSUP
>> (cvsup2.uk.freebsd.org) 2/3 days ago and it took well over eight hours to
>> complete. Is this normal behaviour?
>
> No. I find the .uk cvsup servers a little unreliable though.
>
> Either way, I expect that you'll find portsnap is better if you don't
> need an actual CVS ports tree.
I stopped using cvsup2 some months ago as it had become terribly slow, even
at 3am, I now use cvsup.uk.freebsd.org and it is all done in a few minutes.
--
Martin Smith
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