From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 27 19:06:45 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 7E2D337B401 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:06:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from itaqui.terra.com.br (itaqui.terra.com.br [200.176.3.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92AE043F75 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:06:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonny@jonny.eng.br) Received: from jurere.terra.com.br (jurere.terra.com.br [200.176.3.49]) by itaqui.terra.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0585E8101C8; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 23:06:43 -0300 (BRT) Received: from jonny.eng.br (unknown [200.165.170.243]) (authenticated user dioni21) by jurere.terra.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 298001380CE; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 23:06:40 -0300 (BRT) Message-ID: <3F248536.8020908@jonny.eng.br> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 23:06:46 -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: Brian Poole References: <20030727192724.GA10869@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <20030727200640.GA387@FreeBSD.org> <3F2439C0.2030002@jonny.eng.br> <20030727213412.GC21867@basm.cerias.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030727213412.GC21867@basm.cerias.purdue.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org 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: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 02:06:45 -0000 Brian Poole wrote: > Quoting Joo Carlos Mendes Lus (jonny@jonny.eng.br) from 27 July 2003: > >>Simon L. Nielsen wrote: >> >> >>>On 2003.07.27 15:27:24 -0400, Ken Smith wrote: >>> >>> >>>>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? > > Right-o. We never have either, it was known when we signed up (3+ > years ago?) that this was the case. We'll either become an unofficial > mirror or add an alias to separate the OS mirrors from the rest of > our archives. > >>It's important. Think sysinstall... > > > Agreed, for some reason I was under the impression that sysintall had > a way of handling this but looking at the code it doesn't appear to. > Official mirrors should meet this requirement if the install scripts > don't have a method for handling mirrors with different directory > structures. OpenBSD handles this by leaving the ftplist on the master > site and the ftplist includes the directory as well as hostname. I'm This sounds good! And we can have a first guess in cache (sysinstall) for when it's not possible to reach the mirror list site. 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