Re: installation notes
On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
> > Hmm, please do not shuffle that much. Think about the traffic you are
> I'm well aware of the mirror traffic I cause with moving files. But
> with the new organization I'm advocating, this won't be a problem for
> future releases. We'll just have to suffer this once.
Dear Guy,
I really do understand your point. It was not the best to be forced to
copy everything from unstable to buzz. It would have been a much smaller
problem creating a new 1.2-unstable directory.
So using links in order to point to the directories is the right way to
go.
It is not a big hit on mirrors to catch up with changing links.
But please refrain from doing so before 1.1 hits the shelves!
IMHO it is too late for this release. Do better for 1.2.
A lot of people are waiting for 1.1 desperately.
(Debian 1.1 will be the first distribution with Linux 2.0.0)
Things will calm down 2 or 3 weeks after release.
Then you can make your changes and nobody will moan.
Please remember that there are places for whom it is really very hard to
keep their mirrors in sync. Also ftp.debian.org will not be able to
handle all this traffic.
I just tried it myself today.
Even with our 34MBit Internet connection I could not establish a stable
ftp connection to ftp.debian.org.
YOurs,
martin
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