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Add small section explaining we are not allowing public mirrors of packages and possible workarounds.

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Brad Davis 2015-05-07 14:48:35 +00:00
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<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>rsync -vaHz --delete rsync://bit0.us-west.freebsd.org/FreeBSD-www-data/ /usr/local/www/</userinput>
</screen>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="mirror-pkgs">
<title>Mirroring Packages</title>
<para>Due to very high requirements of bandwidth, storage and
adminstration the &os; Project has decided not to allow public
mirrors of packages. For sites with lots of machines, it might
be advantagous to run a caching HTTP proxy for the &man.pkg.8;
process. Alternatively specific packages and their dependencies
can be fetched by running something like the following:</para>
<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>pkg fetch -d -o <replaceable>/usr/local/mirror</replaceable> <replaceable>vim</replaceable></userinput></screen>
<para>Once those packages have been fetched, the repository metadata must be generated by running:</para>
<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>pkg repo <replaceable>/usr/local/mirror</replaceable></userinput></screen>
<para>Once the packages have been fetched and the metadata for the
repository has been generated, serve the packages up to the
client machines via HTTP. For additional information see the
man pages for &man.pkg.8;, specifically the pkg-repo(8) page.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="mirror-how-often">
<title>How often should I mirror?</title>
<para>