"Joshua Slive" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Aaron Bannert wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 10:46:35PM -0400, Joshua Slive wrote:
>>
>>> A quick check shows 1040829k. We hope to increase it considerably some
>>> time soon by including the jakarta and xml software distributions. We
>>> are therefore asking mirrors to have 10GB available. You should also be
>>> relatively well-connected. If you don't have a fat pipe to the
>>> Internet, there is not much point in being a mirror.
>>
>>
>> We really need to do something about this. I stopped running the
>> jakarta and xml site mirrors to my machine because the nightly
>> deltas were so huge. It would be great if we could get the
>> dist directories to only be official project distributions,
>> so we could mirror just that instead of things like automated
>> gump builds.
>
> Yes, certainly. When I have discussed this with the jakarta people, we
> have been clear that nightly builds cannot go out to the mirrors. The
> other question, however, is whether all the old release (or pre-release)
> builds should stay up on the mirrors (as they are for httpd) or if we
> should prune down to just current releases. I have mixed feelings about
> that.
How can I figure out what the delta is? I'm mirroring world on Nagoya, and
I have the ability to make something happen on jakarta-site...
Pier
