From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Nov 18 10:19:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA14567 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:19:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA14549; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:19:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from chronias.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.59.149]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA56D2; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 19:18:29 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 19:22:58 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Oyvind Moll , FreeBSD Advocacy Subject: Re: distfiles Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hejsa Oyvind... On 18-Nov-98 Oyvind Moll wrote: > * Jeroen Ruigrok >| >| On 17-Nov-98 Satoshi Asami wrote: >| >| > (1) Find backup sites on different continents. Having five sites in >| > Japan is not going to help if the inter-Pacific link is down. >| >| ftpsearch might be a good use for this... ftpsearch.ntnu.no > I thought about this a few months ago. It would be really nice if > ftpsearch was queried at the time of distfile retrieval. Considering > that ftpsearch offers (crude?) sorting by distance to host as well as > limiting to specific domains, it could automate fetching distfiles > from nearby sites. Good idea IMO. As the problem we now are facing is that most packages are dynamically floating around from ftpsite to ftpsite. (PITA ;) > Is this doable; dynamically finding a distsite through a search > engine? It might have to involve getting an MD5 hash from ftpsearch > to ensure that it's the right file, but perhaps that is already in > there. MD5 checksums oughtta be the same for a given file no matter where taken from. So why should FTPSearch provide the MD5 hash? > The main author of ftpsearch (now ftpsearch.lycos.com, btw) -- Tor > Egge -- is a FreeBSD guy, as you might know, so getting some info on > how to do this effectively and robustly should be doable. He might > not resist being coaxed into storing MD5s for distfiles, if they're > not already there. Well, he might be interested in promoting FreeBSD by means of stats for the site? Just like wcarchive.cdrom.com. (CC: to advocacy =) The thing I am wondering about is the fact how we are going to parse the results back to the client and how to provide a means of selecting the distsites. Heh, might even mean another of out (in?)famous native utilities =) Thoughts? > Am I talking nonsense? No, english ;) --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl | Cum angelis et pueris, Junior Network/Security Specialist | fideles inveniamur *BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message