Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 11:45:24AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > Once again, we tell mirrors that they can mirror only i386, and that > > would be fine. We already have mirrors that mirror some arches and > > not others, right? > > Currently we have a good, solid mirror infrastructure. I can expect > to find one or more full, up-to-date mirrors in my country or a > neighbouring country, and I don't even have to look them up -- > I just try ftp.*.debian.org, possibly ftp1.*.debian.org, where > the * is a country code. > > You propose to fragment that and make users play hunt-the-right-mirror > every time they configure apt. For what benefit?
No. I propose making the solution easy for users and more mirror operators. I can think of several options right off the bat. Moreover, I expect that most mirrors won't skip a beat. Regardless, I have no objection to phasing such things in slowly, as well. Perhaps we wouldn't need both 386 and 486. Perhaps it would be useful to have the easy-local-build variant, since that's a prereq anyway, and it would enable the creation of ready statistics so that the value of optimization can be demonstrated.