On 18 May 1999, Philip Hands wrote: > Perhaps a better goal (although significantly more difficult) would be > to design a system where we can have multiple symmetric masters, where > you can upload to any of them, and the propagate packages amongst > themselves.
Perhaps I didn't explain it clearly enough, but that is what I intended. However, instead of having symmetrical masters, I intended for all .changes files etc to get posted to master, with the .deb, .diff.gz and .orig.tar.gz being sent to any of the other upload sites, whichever one is legal. That way master can generate the Packages list, then our "sync" script would run on each top-tier mirror and seek out the packages. I was hoping each of our top-tiers could double as potential upload sites for developers. This method is secure, for reasons I already outlined in the original proposal. Jonathan
