Re: A Proposal to solve the non-US problem.
On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 09:35:59AM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> I hope we aren't getting to the point that we need to use apt as our
> mirror program. As cool as it sounds (and the ability to do so would
> be nice) it could be problematic for some mirrors. The reason I say this
> is because we are moving the necessary information into the package files
> instead of the directory/file names. I don't think symlinks are the
> solution because you need to mirror the symlink and any directory that a
> symlink you mirrored may point to. I don't see a good solution to this
> now, besides the current one.
>
> Thoughts?
> Brandon
>
Well, this is not necessarily the way things need to work.
Instead of symlinks we could just have various differing sections (eg, debian,
debian-us, debian-fr, or whatever other way you want to break it down), and
each distro only includes the files appropriate too it. Apt et al should then
be smart enuff to try and download it from the primary section, and if it can't
find it, then try another section (possibly on a different server). It should
also be smart enough not to try and download something it's not allowed to.
...
Chris
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