Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:00:16 -0400 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mirror Site Requirements... Message-ID: <20030715140016.GA11840@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20030712173332.GB14686@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <20030712173332.GB14686@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 01:33:32PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> There were no comments on the set of Mirror Site Requirements so I
> will proceed with those unless someone(s) start to object.
One person mentioned the discussion about mirror site requirements
snuck by him because the subject line was a bit confusing. Sorry,
that's another thing for me to note as part of organizing discussions. :-)
The question he raised was whether requiring the packages as part
of being a Tier-2 was necessary. Using the 5.1 release as an example
what I proposed as the Tier-2 requirements was that they carry:
releases/i386/5.1-RELEASE/
ports/i386/packages-5.1-release/
I don't think it's necessary for them to carry the -current packages.
Is that a reasonable requirement? The reason I included the ports/
stuff was related to sysinstall - my understanding is that during an
FTP based install sysinstall will go looking there when it wants to
offer installing extra packages as part of the baseline install (well,
a symlink in the -RELEASE dir takes it there :-). Is that correct? I
consider an official mirror site being someplace we would like to have
fully functional in this regard so that if a new user wants to add in
extra packages sysinstall works as expected.
To qualify as a Tier-2 they could also choose to not include the stuff
needed to do the FTP-based installs, opting to only carry the ISO's
instead. The goal was just to make sure a user led to this site would
find "a complete set" for either an FTP based install or an ISO download.
Thanks.
--
Ken Smith
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