From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 1 07:37:03 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 4440037B404 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 07:37:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.tcoip.com.br (erato.tco.net.br [200.220.254.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17C0543F3F for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 07:37:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@tcoip.com.br) Received: from tcoip.com.br ([10.0.2.6]) by mail.tcoip.com.br (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h71Eaaj10033; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 11:36:37 -0300 Message-ID: <3F2A7AF1.901@tcoip.com.br> Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 11:36:33 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030702 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, pt-br, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Langille References: <3F283725.11219.7DFB7A87@localhost> from "Dan Langille" at Jul 30, 2003 09:22:45 PM <3F2A3DB9.24118.85E550E3@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3F2A3DB9.24118.85E550E3@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org cc: Oliver Fromme 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 14:37:03 -0000 Dan Langille wrote: > 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/ It seems my country was somehow displaced. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca VIVO Centro Oeste Norte Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo@tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br dcs@tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net "If you've done six impossible things before breakfast, why not round it off with dinner at Milliway's, the restaurant at the end of the universe?"