Re: OBSOLETE and DEAD LINKS: http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/
The situation WRT .iso mirrors is quite messed up...
Some people use jigdo-mirror and others use rsync (=> different leafnames
for the images), some people outside the US make a link from the 1_NONUS to
the 1 CD. Some servers are horribly outdated (e.g. still carry potato),
others don't carry any images anymore.
Myself, I've given up trying to fix this for various reasons - if anybody
were to give it a try, that would be splendid! Roughly, steps involved are
(all IMHO):
- Fix debian-cd to make image names consistent for jigdo and non-jigdo
images (difficult, there are reasons for the current state of things...)
- Set up a master CD server on a debian.org machine (difficult because
not everyone agrees that one is needed at all, and because the people on
debian-admin are overworked and have to be persuaded too, etc...), find
a way of granting mirror admins access to the master server in a way
which doesn't let one person do all the work.
- Optional, but very cool: A system which tracks which CD mirrors are up
to date. Checking the servers is fairly easy (IIRC Joey Hess even wrote
a script a while ago), integrating the info into the web pages less so.
- Come up with one standard way of mirroring. Unfortunately, jigdo-mirror
was not accepted by most admins, probably because it is "non-standard"
and because being a shell script, it might appear to be a hack.
- Mail admins to reconfigure their mirror scripts to use the new server.
Not difficult, just a lot of work.
Cheers,
Richard
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