From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 7 16:29: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.webmonster.de (datasink.webmonster.de [194.162.162.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 42D0837C204 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 16:29:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karsten@rohrbach.de) Received: (qmail 92158 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Apr 2000 23:28:59 -0000 Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 01:28:59 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Cejka Rudolf , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, markm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: desire for ftp.internat.freebsd.org mirror Message-ID: <20000408012859.C90134@rohrbach.de> Reply-To: karsten@rohrbach.de References: <20000407094813.A51749@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from kris@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 01:38:05AM -0700 X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 X-Sender: karsten@rohrbach.de Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway(kris@FreeBSD.ORG)@Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 01:38:05AM -0700: > > Mark Murray would know :-) > > I think there's a lot of stale cruft on ftp.internat.freebsd.org which > doesn't need to be mirrored - Mark could probably tell us all which bits > are suitable for mirroring (this should be documented somewhere for > posterity) > mirroring of all that stuff should be migrated to rsync(1), since this implicitly defines (in terms of standard archive'/distribution handling) a structured "package" like layout, so we would have several collections (freebsd-ftp/ freebsd-www/ freebsd-crypto-US/ freebsd-crypto-nonUS/ and so on...) thus, it would be easier to set up a mirror, the paths would be more standard, the updates would be better in sync (since rsync really does a good job in not just only checking if a file has a new datestamp) and the world would be a bit better ;-) opinions? /k -- > If you think sex is a pain in the ass, try a different position. http://www.webmonster.de http://www.apache.de http://www.splatterworld.de (NIC-HDL KR433/KR11-RIPE) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message