Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 01:28:59 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Cejka Rudolf <cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, markm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: desire for ftp.internat.freebsd.org mirror Message-ID: <20000408012859.C90134@rohrbach.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004070136310.49031-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>; from kris@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 01:38:05AM -0700 References: <20000407094813.A51749@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004070136310.49031-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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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) > <covering_in_asbestos> 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 ;-) </covering_in_asbestos> 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
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