[tex-live] The OpenBSD port.

[Edd Barrett]

Hi Karl,

On 5/2/07, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
>     Just now I have built my first document using my port!
>
> Congratulations.
>
>     Is tug able to offer this hosting?
>
> Isn't there a place within the OpenBSD infrastructure for something like this? That seems like it would be a lot easier on everyone.

Yes, But it will have to pull from another server initially.

> Anyway, if you're talking about uploading a tarball for a few developers
> to grab, sure, we can do that.  If you're talking about a general
> hosting facility for further development and access by the general user
> population, then sorry, but no -- we're already using too large a
> proportion of our host university's bandwidth.  (And don't have any
> hosting software installed anyway.)

Unfortunately I cant say how many users this could be.  Probably too many.

The good news is that I spoke to my university UNIX admin, and they
are using less that one tenth of thier available bandwidth, so I can
host it there!

-- 
Best Regards

Edd