Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

2002-11-29 Thread Richard Atterer
[NB followups set to debian-cd only] I guess many will have skipped the sub-thread of Are we losing users to Gentoo? about CD images, over on -devel and -www. Basically, the current situation WRT CD image mirrors is getting, er, irritating: Far too few of them carry the 3.0r0 images, many only

Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

2002-11-29 Thread Joey Hess
Richard Atterer wrote: Basically, the current situation WRT CD image mirrors is getting, er, irritating: Far too few of them carry the 3.0r0 images, many only have the jigdo files or 2.2r6. BTW the situation seems to be most pathetic for the US mirrors for some reason, I have much better luck

Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

2002-11-29 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Joey Hess wrote: Richard Atterer wrote: Basically, the current situation WRT CD image mirrors is getting, er, irritating: Far too few of them carry the 3.0r0 images, many only have the jigdo files or 2.2r6. BTW the situation seems to be most pathetic for the US

Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

2002-11-29 Thread Joey Hess
Mattias Wadenstein wrote: Yes, this would be very good. I have been thinking of writing such a script myself, but never found the time for it. I would be very grateful if you could write such a script. I have one sorta kinda working. I'll pound on it a bit more before releasing it. The overall

Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

2002-11-29 Thread Joey Hess
One interesting thing that I'm running into is that some mirrors have a cd with size 614780752, and some have 612171776 for debian-30r0-i386-binary-1.iso. I'm assuming the more prevalant 612171776 is correct, but lack the facilities to check md5sums or anything. Some mirrors with the bigger sized

Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

2002-11-29 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Joey Hess wrote: One interesting thing that I'm running into is that some mirrors have a cd with size 614780752, and some have 612171776 for debian-30r0-i386-binary-1.iso. I'm assuming the more prevalant 612171776 is correct, but lack the facilities to check md5sums or

state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-11-29 Thread Joey Hess
Here is the current state of the cdrom mirror network. I decided not to try to track yada files since the web site only links to 2 mirrors for yada stuff. I added source cd checking. It only checks the first image for US and non-US. A few places have question marks; this is where the file exists,

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-11-29 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: Here is the current state of the cdrom mirror network. I decided not to try to track yada files since the web site only links to 2 mirrors for yada stuff. I added source cd checking. It only checks the first image for US and non-US. Correction, it checks for the first image