Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 13:19:57 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: karsten@rohrbach.de Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, Cejka Rudolf <cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, markm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: desire for ftp.internat.freebsd.org mirror Message-ID: <200004081119.NAA02473@grimreaper.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: <20000408012859.C90134@rohrbach.de> ; from "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> "Sat, 08 Apr 2000 01:28:59 %2B0200." References: <20000408012859.C90134@rohrbach.de>
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> > 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) Mostly packages and distfiles. > <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> I could do this. What arre the setup concerns? M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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