Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 11:56:59AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 11:23:23PM +1300, Nick Phillips wrote:
> > Joy (or any of the rest of the www team) - where do you get the data
> > to put into the mirror pages on www.d.o?
>
> Well, we get it from the Internet :) Please rephrase the question, I don't
> understand.
Well, do the admins just send you a mail, do you list any that you happen
to come across when randomly surfing around, do you have any more structured
way for admins to tell you what they plan to mirror...?
> We already have that, but notice how the mirrors of the two archives aren't
> in the least bit of distress like the problem at hadn: the structure and
> contents of those is well defined, we have mirror checking scripts and we
> regularly monitor the output of that for any major problems.
>
> (I would suggest that you have a look at http://www.debian.org/mirror/)
Hmmm... the link to "Debian mirrors that include the debian-cd archive"
actually takes me to a useful-ish list... at least, some of the sites
listed do have iso images.
It's not terribly helpful if it's not linked to in such a way that it will be
found by someone looking for CD images, though.
> The CD image mirrors don't even have a primary site -- *cdimage.d.o includes
> only jigdo files now. Those image mirrors are one big improvization.
Doesn't matter whether there's a primary site that is only accessible to
official mirrors, or whether they all have to get the images in some other
way, so long as it is simple for them to automate & keep up to date.
And so long as the directory structure of all the mirrors is the same,
for the parts that they mirror...
Cheers,
Nick
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