From owner-ctm-announce Sat Jun 14 12:11:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA04352 for ctm-announce-outgoing; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 12:11:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shrimp.dataplex.net ([208.2.87.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA04333; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 12:11:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [208.2.87.4] (cod.dataplex.net [208.2.87.4]) by shrimp.dataplex.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA20871; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 14:10:19 -0500 (CDT) X-Sender: rkw@shrimp.dataplex.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 14:09:39 -0500 To: ctm-announce@freebsd.org From: Sascha Blank (by way of rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth)) Subject: A call for new CTM mirror sites with email updating Cc: hubs@freebsd.org Sender: owner-announce@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk A call for new CTM mirror sites with automatic email based updating What this call is about: a) We want to increase the number of anonymous ftp sites which offer FreeBSD CTM archives. The current number is too low, which forces many users to connect to far away sites often resulting in poor connectivity. In particular, we would like to have a presence on each of the continents. b) We want to update those archives by using the CTM email flow in addition to the normal ftp-mirror update mechanism. Deltas will be processed and put into your ftp archive as soon as they arrive. The traditional ftp update mechanism handles the base deltas, the deletion of deltas which have become to old and the retrieval of those deltas, which have not arrived at your site because of network problems. While this reduces the risk of losing a delta, we further reduce it by feeding your site with CTM deltas directly from the their production site for the time being. So, we are looking for volunteers who want to establish such an archive from scratch or who want to "upgrade" already existing ftp archives to take advantage of point b). If you want to contribute to this project then please check first if the following prerequisites are met: a) The site offering such a service must be publically accessible by anonymous ftp. b) You must archive the base deltas (*.xEmpty.gz) in addition to the normal deltas. c) You must offer all five CTM categories (cvs-cur, src-cur, src-2.2, src-2.1 and ports-cur). The entire archive currently takes up about 320 MB of disk space. d) Your network connectivity should be good enough to be able to receive and send files of up to 80 MBytes within a reasonable amount of time. e) You must know about basic system administration and programming tasks, like using a C compiler, setting up a mail filter and maintaining an anonymous ftp site. Furthermore it might become necessary to gain root and/or ftpadmin privileges during the installation. f) You should use and be familiar with the mirror-2.3 or mirror-2.8 package for updating your archive (see also net/mirror in the ports collection). This is the only ftp mirror package I know about which can be configured to reasonably coexist and cooperate with the email-updater. If you are interested in participating or have further questions, then please contact me (not Richard!) at mailto:blank@fox.uni-trier.de. Richard Wackerbarth Sascha Blank CTM-meister CTM-submeister (rkw@dataplex.net) (blank@fox.uni-trier.de)