From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 27 13:44:47 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 D591237B404; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 13:44:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from itaqui.terra.com.br (itaqui.terra.com.br [200.176.3.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C34EA43F85; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 13:44:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonny@jonny.eng.br) Received: from barra.terra.com.br (barra.terra.com.br [200.176.3.52]) by itaqui.terra.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBCA081048F; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 17:44:45 -0300 (BRT) Received: from jonny.eng.br (unknown [200.165.170.243]) (authenticated user dioni21) by barra.terra.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id C748E2343B2; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 17:44:44 -0300 (BRT) Message-ID: <3F2439C0.2030002@jonny.eng.br> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 17:44:48 -0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Carlos_Mendes_Lu=EDs?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: pt-br, en-us, en, pt MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Simon L. Nielsen" References: <20030727192724.GA10869@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <20030727200640.GA387@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030727200640.GA387@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org cc: Ken Smith Subject: Re: Mirror Site Requirements - Final Draft? 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: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 20:44:48 -0000 Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > On 2003.07.27 15:27:24 -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > > >>Requirements of all Mirror Sites >>-------------------------------- >> > > [CUT] > >>4) Directory archive sits in is /pub/FreeBSD. > > > At least ftp9.freebsd.org doesn't do this... Is it that important, since > the FreeBSD mirror directory is mentioned in the Handbook? It's important. Think sysinstall... > I can see the benefit for users from having all mirrors having the > /pub/FreeBSD directory, but some large mirrors might like to subdivide > their mirrors and it would be a shame to disqualify them on this reason > alone. There are large mirrors that use this structure without problems. And you could always use symbolic links, if needed. Jonny -- João Carlos Mendes Luís - Networking Engineer - jonny@jonny.eng.br -- "the West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do." -- Samuel P. Huntington