Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 23:14:17 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade <jason@rtfmconsult.com> To: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, "" <hubs@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: 4.8 i386 packages uploaded Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.50.0303252307200.12436-100000@luna.rtfmconsult.com> In-Reply-To: <20030325014010.C208@freebsdmall.com> References: <20030325060738.GA3313@rot13.obsecurity.org> <Pine.GSO.4.50.0303251643260.12436-100000@luna.rtfmconsult.com> <20030325014010.C208@freebsdmall.com>
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Murray Stokely wrote: > I don't think there was an announcement to hubs@ about it. I also > don't think that reading emails and manually kicking off the mirror > script is a very efficient way to run a mirror site. Can't you just > mirror via cron, maybe with a little sanity checking on your mirror > configuration? we try and automate parts of the mirroring but prefer to do the syncing of new releases in most cases manually for a couple of reasons (perhaps some now historical) o we can't keep an exact duplicate of what is on ftp-master at all times, e.g for disk space reasons. o we have had issues in the past with updates taking so long in some cases that they rolled into each other. o a large chunk of the freebsd site doesn't seem to change anyway and i guess we could just exclude it from an automatic mirror process but it has been easier to simply manually sync up new stuff via scripts. > Announcements do not go to hubs@ everytime something is placed on the > FTP site, they are only sent to hubs@ during major releases so that we > may coordinate and make sure the bits get to all of the right places > in time. that's fair enough - i guess i was hoping there would be a mail when "significant" things were going to be coming out, e.g the 4.8-R package tree notice that came out. for some of us the addition of another 5-10G might mean 2-4 days of syncing as well as a large chunk of disk disappearing in one hit. i consider the release trees/isos and RC trees/isos significant. probably much less so for generic updates to distfiles or a new package build. i'll try and check the web pages more frequently and see if i can tune our scripts a bit more towards automating this part of the updates cycle. regards, -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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