Okay, got it. Thanks for clarifying

    -hc

Andrew Kenna wrote:
>From my understanding of Justin's email... The ASF is not looking for
people to mirror the apache web sites so change your rsync script to
point fo apache-dist as this is specific to the distributions directory
on the apache server.

Then under distributions you can either all or or ignore the following

drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 May 30  2002 CVS
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          532 May 30  2002 HEADER.html
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         4096 Nov 28 19:23 ant
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         4096 Sep 12 11:11 apr
drwxr-xr-x    9 root     root         4096 Oct 20 10:47 httpd
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Oct  5  2001 jakarta
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Oct  5  2001 java
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Aug 21 16:37 perl
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Mar 20  2001 tcl
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Dec  6 07:25 xml

The above is a directory copy+paste from my local mirror which currently
reflects everything in the apache-dist module.

Andrew


-----Original Message-----
From: hc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, 6 December 2002 9:30 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Heads up...


Okay.. Iknow that apache-dist serves all distribution files, etc.. But 
just out of curiosity.. what purpose does apache-site module serve now??

B/c so far I noticed that apache-site module also downloads all of 
distribution files.. Is apache-site module now deprecated, or does it 
still maintain something, but just the web site only?

Thanks
    -hc


Andrew Kenna wrote:

  
I'm updating my mirror now to include all the new stuff in apache-dist

Andrew


-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Erenkrantz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 6 December 2002 8:36 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Heads up...


Just a heads-up to all of the mirror maintainers that we're starting
to see some adoption by the Jakarta and XML ASF projects into placing 
their files in the apache-dist rsync module.  Previously, you may 
have rsynced from jakarta-site or other modules.  We're going to try 
to consolidate what we want our mirrors to offer under the 
apache-dist module.  This should ease the configuration burden on 
mirrors.  (As a point of policy, we're not going to want mirrors of 
the actual websites for the forseeable future.)

Therefore, you may start to see some large rsync jobs coming your way
soon as each project moves their files over.  Furthermore, we're 
going to be encouraging more use of the mirrors on our web sites. 
This will take some time to complete the transition, but hopefully, 
we're starting to see real progress.

Our goal is to offload as much of the download traffic as we can to
your sites.  If this is going to be a problem, let us know and we'll 
remove you from our mirrors listing.  We realize that we haven't been 
efficiently using our mirrors in the past, but we're going to be 
asking more of your sites now.  Of course, we hope you will continue 
to act as official ASF mirrors.  And, thanks for helping us out!

Also, I've been informed that there are some mirrors that are not
picking up these recent changes.  You should now have a ant directory 
in your local mirror.  If you do not have that directory, please 
check up on your rsync processes.  If you need further assistance, 
reply to this list and we can help you out.

Thanks!  -- justin
 

    


  

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