On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 05:23:17PM +0200, Michel Deriaz wrote:
> - How many mirror servers do you rely on for the distribution of your
> Linux distributions, and how many belong to you?
See http://www.debian.org/mirror/list for a full list of public mirrors.
As far as I know, no mirrors are under Debian's control, either.
> - How are the mirror servers organized (hierarchically (i.e., mirror x
> always downloads from mirror y), P2P, ...)?
Hierarchically. Secondary mirrors download from Primary mirrors, which
download from ftp-master.debian.org, all using rsync. There may be
tertiary mirrors, I'm not sure about that part.
> - What is the complete size of the distribution?
http://www.debian.org/mirror/size
> - How often are mirrors updated on average (e.g., once a day, variable)?
Once a day.
> - How much time can elapse between the moment you publish a new version
> to the moment all mirror servers are up-to-date?
http://mirror.debian.org/status.html
> - How do you assure the compatibility between the different packages?
Using package dependencies.
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