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Re: Dealing better with CD releases



Hello,

On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 14:36 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> 
> At the moment we have problems when we do releases including new
> CD/DVD images, as you'll see from mailing list complaints about broken
> links each time. [..]
> 
> 1. The Problem
> 
> [..] The image filenames and the top-level directory are versioned for
> clarity, [..] We then prune most of the old ISO images so we don't
> waste too much space [..] We currently potentially have a window of a
> few hours of breakage, as the web pages that point directly to the old
> images

I discovered mirrorbrain.org, an apache module to handle mirrors (with
geoip...). It is capable of tracking the states of mirrors...

You are probably aware of that tool, but here it is in case you don't.

Regards,

Franklin


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