From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 1 07:15:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A179637B401 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 07:15:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DD2D43FBF for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 07:15:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 898463D28; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 10:15:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: Oliver Fromme Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 10:15:21 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3F2A3DB9.24118.85E550E3@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <200308011350.h71DoGO5008432@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <3F283725.11219.7DFB7A87@localhost> from "Dan Langille" at Jul 30, 2003 09:22:45 PM X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Requirements Final Draft Attempt #2 :-/ X-BeenThere: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Distributions Hubs: mail sup ftp List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 14:15:24 -0000 On 1 Aug 2003 at 15:50, Oliver Fromme wrote: > A few months ago someone mentioned another idea on this > list, which I would like to repeat. An automated mechanism > could contact every FTP server (say, once per day) and > check which collections that server is carrying, i.e. which > releases and architectures, whether they have ISOs and the > FTP install directories, and which package sets are there. > > That information would be collected and converted into a > "survey" of all FreeBSD mirror sites. This file should > be easy to parse. That survey would be put on the master > FTP server, and _every_ mirror would be required to sync > that particular file often enough (say, once per day). > It could be called /pub/FreeBSD/.mirror-info or whatever. You should see http://www.freebsdmirrors.org/ -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/