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Re: magazine packagine (was Re: Bug#181860: ITP: phrack-issueXX -- Phrack Magazine Issues)



On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:35:19AM -0700, Kevin Rosenberg wrote:
> > > Would it make more sense to instead make an installer that can download
> > > desired issues? (The same installer could then be used for Linux
> > > Gazette, ridding us of many packages.)
> To my thinking, there is benefit to having local Debian mirrors
> containing the contents versus relying on the continued presence of a
> single upstream node. 

single upstream node?
linux gazette has about a hundred mirrors all over the globe.

a cron scrip to download the latest issue from the users favourite
mirror would even be sufficient.

greetings, martin.
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