The situation WRT .iso mirrors is quite messed up... Some people use jigdo-mirror and others use rsync (=> different leafnames for the images), some people outside the US make a link from the 1_NONUS to the 1 CD. Some servers are horribly outdated (e.g. still carry potato), others don't carry any images anymore.
Myself, I've given up trying to fix this for various reasons - if anybody were to give it a try, that would be splendid! Roughly, steps involved are (all IMHO): - Fix debian-cd to make image names consistent for jigdo and non-jigdo images (difficult, there are reasons for the current state of things...) - Set up a master CD server on a debian.org machine (difficult because not everyone agrees that one is needed at all, and because the people on debian-admin are overworked and have to be persuaded too, etc...), find a way of granting mirror admins access to the master server in a way which doesn't let one person do all the work. - Optional, but very cool: A system which tracks which CD mirrors are up to date. Checking the servers is fairly easy (IIRC Joey Hess even wrote a script a while ago), integrating the info into the web pages less so. - Come up with one standard way of mirroring. Unfortunately, jigdo-mirror was not accepted by most admins, probably because it is "non-standard" and because being a shell script, it might appear to be a hack. - Mail admins to reconfigure their mirror scripts to use the new server. Not difficult, just a lot of work. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯
