Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Is it problematic to use virtual domains and a symlink tree to hide non-free > under some hostname, for Free Software advocats? Yes, FTP can only do IP-based virtual hosting. The reason I haven't come up with a nice proposal yet is that it's a complex solution. Here are some issues: Given that: 1) we want to make the distinction between main (the Debian distribution) and the rest (contrib & non-free) more clear. The best way seems to be to move contrib and non-free to another (virtual) host 2) moving things to another host means that all mirrors will suddenly stop mirroring contrib and non-free unless they manually add that 2 is a bit troublesome. Somewhere I wouldn't really mind if that happens: we still have contrib and non-free and anyone can get them, but we can't handle the load for that. We would need mirrors. Now a mirror can mirror both main and the rest, and even put symlinks back in debian/dists so users can use a single tree. But then we would end up with mirror in debian.org which don't have the split anymore.. We also can't ask our mirrors to do virtual hosting, since not every mirror has a second IP available. My current favourite is moving contrib and nonfree to nonfree.debian.org (or nondfsg.debian.org), and asking our mirrors to mirror that as /debian-non-free (or /debian-nondfsg). That way will continue to make everything available to our users, while having a ftp.debian.org with only our official distribution (ie main). Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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