Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 10:15:21 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Requirements Final Draft Attempt #2 :-/ Message-ID: <3F2A3DB9.24118.85E550E3@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200308011350.h71DoGO5008432@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <3F283725.11219.7DFB7A87@localhost> from "Dan Langille" at Jul 30, 2003 09:22:45 PM
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On 1 Aug 2003 at 15:50, Oliver Fromme wrote: > A few months ago someone mentioned another idea on this > list, which I would like to repeat. An automated mechanism > could contact every FTP server (say, once per day) and > check which collections that server is carrying, i.e. which > releases and architectures, whether they have ISOs and the > FTP install directories, and which package sets are there. > > That information would be collected and converted into a > "survey" of all FreeBSD mirror sites. This file should > be easy to parse. That survey would be put on the master > FTP server, and _every_ mirror would be required to sync > that particular file often enough (say, once per day). > It could be called /pub/FreeBSD/.mirror-info or whatever. You should see http://www.freebsdmirrors.org/ -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
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