Re: debian-volatile mirrors
We, ftp.cl.d.o, have carried debian-volatile for some time and I have
submitted the information to http://www.debian.org/volatile/submit several
times with no apparent success. We still don't appear in their master
list.
Ricardo
> On Sun Oct 14, 2007 at 04:23:57PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
>> On Sun Oct 14, 2007 at 14:54:01 +0200, Simon Paillard wrote:
>> > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 12:56:53PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
>> > > Can anyone thing of a reason why we shouldn't have Volatile-*:
>> fields in
>> > > the mirror list?
>> >
>> > I assume it is an historical reason : volatile was not an official
>> > project at the beginning.
>> >
>> > But I see no reason for not including volatile in the main list, now
>> it
>> > is an official project :-)
>>
>> Feel free to do so, but please contact Filipe van der Wiel, he is the
>> mirror coordinator of volatile.debian.org
>
> I went to have a look at that stuff... it appears that there is a separate
> http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile/project/Mirrors.masterlist
> which is processed by an old forked copy of our mirror_list.pl to generate
> http://www.debian.org/volatile/volatile-mirrors
> Cc:ing Luk Claes who originally implemented that (judging by CVS commit
> logs).
>
> Nowadays, this is obviously insane :) so unless someone has anything to
> add,
> I'll go merge the data into the main Mirrors.masterlist, merge the
> forked code into the main mirror/mirror_list.pl script, etc.
>
> (A benefit that may not be obvious is that this way we will also be able
> to
> trivially add the volatile archive into the Debian mirror checkers.)
>
> --
> Josip Rodin
> mirrors@debian.org
>
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