Re: Are PIK mirrors obsolete?

2002-05-28 Thread Wookey
On Mon 27 May, Richard Atterer wrote: The important thing first: jigdo-mirror needs more testers! When 3.0r0 is released, cdimage will be so overloaded that any rsync-based mirroring will be very slow, so set up jigdo-mirror instead! Well I was just about to try it (having got my mirror

RE: Are PIK mirrors obsolete?

2002-05-28 Thread Martijn Stegeman
]] Sent: dinsdag 28 mei 2002 14:42 To: Richard Atterer Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Are PIK mirrors obsolete? On Mon 27 May, Richard Atterer wrote: The important thing first: jigdo-mirror needs more testers! When 3.0r0 is released, cdimage will be so overloaded that any rsync-based

Re: Are PIK mirrors obsolete?

2002-05-27 Thread Richard Atterer
The important thing first: jigdo-mirror needs more testers! When 3.0r0 is released, cdimage will be so overloaded that any rsync-based mirroring will be very slow, so set up jigdo-mirror instead! On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 12:57:01AM +0200, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: On Sun, 26 May 2002, H. Peter

Re: Are PIK mirrors obsolete?

2002-05-27 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Mon, 27 May 2002, Richard Atterer wrote: On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 12:57:01AM +0200, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: The downsides if jigdo is that it is a fairly complex C++ program which means some portability issues when dealing with older systems. FWIW, I fixed a few issues lately. I

Re: Are PIK mirrors obsolete?

2002-05-27 Thread Othmar Pasteka
Hi folks, On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 12:54:24PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: The important thing first: jigdo-mirror needs more testers! When 3.0r0 is released, cdimage will be so overloaded that any rsync-based mirroring will be very slow, so set up jigdo-mirror instead! well, if you want

Re: Are PIK mirrors obsolete?

2002-05-27 Thread Othmar Pasteka
Hi, On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 07:31:43PM +0200, Othmar Pasteka wrote: well, if you want mirror maintainers to be actually aware of jigdo, joy or whoever should mail the mirror maintainer list. i think it's somewhat closed, or whatever, you probably have to speak to joy (josip rodin, i am so

Are PIK mirrors obsolete?

2002-05-26 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On mirrors.kernel.org, we recently suffered a major disk failure, which among other things ate our PIK CD mirror setup. I went to look for the software again, and find that it has mostly been superceded by jigdo, and that is the only way to download the Debian DVD images. It makes me

Re: Are PIK mirrors obsolete?

2002-05-26 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Sun, 26 May 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On mirrors.kernel.org, we recently suffered a major disk failure, which among other things ate our PIK CD mirror setup. I went to look for the software again, and find that it has mostly been superceded by jigdo, and that is the only way to

Re: Are PIK mirrors obsolete?

2002-05-26 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Mattias Wadenstein wrote: Basically, what you need to do is install the jigdo program and then this script (with a few modifications) should do the job of building images from a mirror of the jigdo files: http://www.acc.umu.se/~maswan/debian-push/jigdo-mirror Richard: Perhaps the

Re: Are PIK mirrors obsolete?

2002-05-26 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Sun, 26 May 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Mattias Wadenstein wrote: Basically, what you need to do is install the jigdo program and then this script (with a few modifications) should do the job of building images from a mirror of the jigdo files:

Re: Are PIK mirrors obsolete?

2002-05-26 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Mattias Wadenstein wrote: But you could always do plain old rsync-mirroring. Sure, you'll download quite a bit more data than strictly needed if you also have a debian mirror, but I woulnd't mind if you did that to my mirror (ftp.acc.umu.se, aka ftp.se.debian.org aka ftp.gnome.org). Or

Re: Are PIK mirrors obsolete?

2002-05-26 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Sun, 26 May 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Mattias Wadenstein wrote: But you could always do plain old rsync-mirroring. Sure, you'll download quite a bit more data than strictly needed if you also have a debian mirror, but I woulnd't mind if you did that to my mirror (ftp.acc.umu.se,