On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 09:23:07PM +0100, Richard Atterer wrote: > Originally, the plan for 3.0r0 was that ISOs would be made available > via jigdo and that mirrors would update using the "jigdo-mirror" > script which I wrote especially for that purpose. (And I mailed all > mirror admins with the details.) Later, the images would also become > available "normally" via rsync (AFAIR), but somehow that never > happened. > > So let's do it their way: I propose that we offer rsync (and maybe > HTTP?) access to the images again starting with 3.0r1. raff has enough > disc space, so the size should not be a problem. Of course, we'd > better implement some kind of access control. And what about > cdimage.d.o? - it would be nice to have another "primary" mirror in > Europe to distribute the load.
I asked Ryan (of DSA) about this and he told me that he'd prefer it if we just had people use jigdo since the debian/ mirrors are plenty and likely much faster than mirrors overloaded with heaps of rampant image downloaders. Frankly I agree with that sentiment, there sure are plenty of better ways to waste bandwidth. But then, we already have a bunch of mirrors that do have images, so _something_ needs to be done to bring back the consistency. -- Joy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
