Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 05:59:59 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Cc: jfieber@freebsd.org, www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Comments on new search page.. Message-ID: <3991.861022799@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Apr 1997 13:07:13 %2B0200." <9704141107.AA02461@wavehh.hanse.de>
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> I've been talking to Wolfram, who does the new-ports and man CGIs and > want to move them to freefall. > > However, what is nice about Wolframs own machine is that be has put > together a collection of manpages from various Unix derivates. If it > is not too slow, it may not be the worst idea to keep the collection > on a machine where it gets maintained. Hmph. Well, I think having just the FreeBSD man pages be searchable (locally) from any of the mirrors is still a worthy goal. If Wolfram wants to provide man page indexes for every other UNIX on the planet, we can point to his site as an "extra." And the more I think about "raising the bar" for www mirror participation, the more I'm in favor of it. I think we've played to the lowest common denominator for long enough and it's only hurt us. The real problem, however, is that even if we were to contemplate doing this, there's no "cookbook" for setting up a web mirror in the approved fashion, so the web mirrors would understandably balk at being asked to do something that's thoroughly undocumented and close to black magic. I can't imagine a better use of John Fieber's (or Ade Barkah's) extremely limited spare time than to spec out and develop a "mirror kit" with full instructions and all the bits you need for becoming a "full" FreeBSD www mirror. Without that, we're screwed and won't ever advance beyond the current state of the art. How 'bout it guys? :-) Jordan
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