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 finding isos on the other mirrors. Cannot find any debian iso's of 3.0 in the US at all. > Originally, the plan for 3.0r0 was that ISOs would be made available > via jigdo and that mirrors would update using the "jigdo-mirror" > script which I wrote especially for that purpose. (And I mailed all > mirror admins with the details.) Later, the images would also become > available "normally" via rsync (AFAIR), but somehow that never > happened. > > But few admins seem to have set up jigdo-mirror... I think for most of > them, mirroring something is not an option if it can't be fetched with > http, ftp or rsync. <shrug> > > So let's do it their way: I propose that we offer rsync (and maybe > HTTP?) access to the images again starting with 3.0r1. raff has enough > disc space, so the size should not be a problem. I offered the web team to write a program to check the cd image mirror list, and output some kind of table of what ftp mirrors: - are down or broken - have jigdo - have current isos With the idea being this would be used to prune the list shown to users on the web site or perhaps generate a seperate list for people who get to the mirror list wanting jugdo files, vs. those who get to the list looking for an iso mirror. I think it's important to automate this. I will not try to check the http mirrors though. Indeed, I think the http mirrors are a bad idea, since (as is seen in my mistake reading one of them in the gentoo thread), they introduce a bunch of third party web sites of varying quality that users must navigate to find isos. I hope the http stuff is not a necessary evil. Once the mirror list is whipped into shape, it'll also be possible to do things like a cgi that uses it to pick a mirror based on a user's address, for one-click iso downloading. Or course it would be best if I had a canoical site to run the checking program against, then it could just do a straightforward comparison. Unfortunatly, it seems that cdimage.debian.org no longer carries isos, and so there is no canoical site? Is that right? -- see shy jo
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