Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

[Josip Rodin <joy@debian.org>]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 11:45:54PM +0100, Mattias Wadenstein wrote:
> > Or course it would be best if I had a canoical site to run the checking
> > program against, then it could just do a straightforward comparison.
> > Unfortunatly, it seems that cdimage.debian.org no longer carries isos,
> > and so there is no canoical site? Is that right?
> 
> That has been a main issue for getting other mirrors to mirror the images
> too. "They aren't on cdimage.debian.org, so why should we bother with
> some kind of not as official ones." The fact that we carry isos with
> released md5sums seems not as important. Or just a convenient excuse to be
> a bit more lazy.

Hey, cut them some slack -- AFAICT, we just left cdimage.d.o lingering there
with the old images for months, and nobody informed the less involved of the
mirror admins about any changes. Heck, just a few weeks ago I mentioned some
of the broken links to Phil and his response was more like "oops, better fix
that".

I know for a fact that mirror admins are a relatively clueless bunch, but I
also know that they can be educated given enough effort.

-- 
Joy