Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 11:36:33 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Subject: Re: Requirements Final Draft Attempt #2 :-/ Message-ID: <3F2A7AF1.901@tcoip.com.br> In-Reply-To: <3F2A3DB9.24118.85E550E3@localhost> References: <3F283725.11219.7DFB7A87@localhost> from "Dan Langille" at Jul 30, 2003 09:22:45 PM <3F2A3DB9.24118.85E550E3@localhost>
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Dan Langille wrote: > 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/ It seems my country was somehow displaced. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca VIVO Centro Oeste Norte Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo@tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br dcs@tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net "If you've done six impossible things before breakfast, why not round it off with dinner at Milliway's, the restaurant at the end of the universe?"home | help
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