Bug#80971: www.debian.org: /mirror/ needs updating
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 12:11:08PM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote:
> Package: www.debian.org
> Version: 20001231
> Severity: normal
>
> The http://www.debian.org/mirror/* pages needs to be updated,
>
> 1.) To reflect the recent package pools changes.
Nothing changed for complete mirrors. The web pages mostly explain how to
make such mirrors, all they say about partial mirrors is that one can edit
the $EXCLUDE variable in ftpsync.conf :)
> Perhaps these pages can also be the home for Joey Hess's partial mirroring
> script available currently at,
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0011/msg01827.html
There have been a few other mirroring scripts posted on the lists recently.
Maybe that should just be put somewhere else and the mirror pages can link
to it... Joey?
> 2.) These pages should encourage people to use a caching proxy server
> instead of setting up their own private mirror. Possibly have instructions
> on how to configure squid/apt to do so.
The pages do not encourage people to set up _private_ mirrors. Anyway,
provide us with some content and we'll see.
(BTW APT maintainer would probably go berserk, considering the amount of bug
reports he gets because of broken proxy servers :)
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