Re: Missing uploads?
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 07:21:23PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 10:29:56AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 11:52:32PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> >>Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>> But isn't ftp.debian.org the Prime Mirror?
> >>No, it isn't. It's _a_ primary mirror [...]
> >Are you sure? It's not even listed in the mirrors list [1].
> Technically, it's not a mirror, for two reasons: it doesn't have a
> public copy of the archive, and it's the master, so it can't be a mirror
> (of the master). So that's why it's not listed on the mirrors list.
> The reasons for this have been discussed to death, and I'm sure you can
> find them in the archive somewhere.
You seem to be describing ftp-master, not ftp.debian.org. "ftp.debian.org"
exists expressly to be a public mirror.
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