At 16:16 Uhr +0100 25.11.2002, David wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160On Montag, November 25, 2002, at 04:00 Uhr, David R. Morrison wrote:Well I would not call their mirror system extensive, because in my eyes it is still pretty small. Yes, we should take advantage of existing solutions though and it might be very smart to contact sourceforge and arrange those special agreements so that we can benefit from it.Regarding sourceforge: 1) Sourceforge has an extensive set of mirrors, which the fink bindist could be taking advantage of, I'm pretty sure, although probably to do this we need another configuration setting someplace.
What special agreements are you thinking about?
To contact the SF.net team, we can file support requests, as everybody else, but they know fink.Who is our sourceforge Contact and who could arrange this?
In addition, I have personal contacts.
Fine. Still, the way to go is a support request tracker item. (NOT a FR item!). This will not go unheeded for long. Write something like this:To be honest, I am discussing this with you guys here, because I do not want this to be a solitary effort, I want us all to agree on it. I find it very important to offer the interface and rather than entering something in a request tracker which will be looked at now and then or not at all, I will go and contact sourceforge to get things arranged. I do not wish to sound rude, harsh or power hungry, but I am a person who likes to get things done, not simply mention them somewhere2) It's probably also possible to allow others to mirror the bindist. At the time the change in bindist location was made last summer, we were not aware of anyone mirroring it (in spite of a public offer to do so having been in place for almost a year). If you think its important for us to offer this service, submit an item to the "feature request tracker".
"HI I am from the Fink team, we'd like to know if it is currently possible to mirror our (speciall hosted, as you may know) binary distribution via rsync to external servers. If the answer is yes, could you tell us details. If it is no, can you tell is if there is a chance to make this possible in the future?"
Do that before you assume it's not possible :-) They usually answer quickly. In addition, I can ask them directly, too.
Max
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