Re: opening morgue/rhona for public access? (was Re: .deb archive?)
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:48:56AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Two things. One, "fix" PIK so that if the .deb's not on the mirror
> it just 0's the appropriate amount of space, and lets rsync fill it
> in. Two, work out just how much information rsync will need to
> transmit on average for each of a 1 to 20 day out of date i386/woody
> CD image over the next month or so.
The old PIK handles the problem in an acceptable way - it is my
replacement scheme for the PIK (called jigdo = "Jigsaw Download") that
encounters a problem, because jigdo doesn't use rsync. It just
downloads the packages and "fills in the blanks" inbetween package
data to create a valid ISO image.
...and why doesn't it use rsync? Because the idea is to get rid of the
overloaded ~10 rsync servers and instead allow people to download
complete CD images from any of the ~200 regular HTTP/FTP Debian
mirrors.
Cheers,
Richard
--
__ _
|_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key:
| \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7
¯ ´` ¯
Reply to: