On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 01:06:25AM +0200, Simon Paillard wrote: >On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:49:49PM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 14:36 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> > At the moment we have problems when we do releases including new >> > CD/DVD images, as you'll see from mailing list complaints about broken >> > links each time. [..] >> > >> > 1. The Problem >> > >> > [..] The image filenames and the top-level directory are versioned for >> > clarity, [..] We then prune most of the old ISO images so we don't >> > waste too much space [..] We currently potentially have a window of a >> > few hours of breakage, as the web pages that point directly to the old >> > images >> >> I discovered mirrorbrain.org, an apache module to handle mirrors (with >> geoip...). It is capable of tracking the states of mirrors... >> >> You are probably aware of that tool, but here it is in case you don't. > >mirrorbrain was previously named openSuse redirector, already mentionned >on debian-mirrors (list in Cc) > >Though I didn't give it a try : > * most of the features needed are here > * to be clear; would not be applicable to packages yet, because > apt doesn't support HTTP redirect yet, see #212732 #79002 > * it's PSQL (overkill ?) + apache module in C, > * avoid single HTTP redirector -> single point of failure >http://mirrorbrain.org/implementation
OK, looks like something useful for investigation then. Anybody volunteering the time to do it? I'm a little short on time at the moment, as you can probably tell from my delays in answering emails :-( -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
