> > I think so. Example: It's suboptimal to access ftp.debian.org from > > www.de.debian.org, being ftp.de.debian.org a well-behaved mirror. > > As long as we guarantee that ftp.<COUNTRY>.debian.org is valid for all > locations where www.<COUNTRY>.debian.org, (even if it is in fact simply a > CNAME back to the US site for web mirrors to which there does not > correspond an FTP mirror), I think we should simply do this. In fact, we > could use wml to define a tag > > <ftp file="/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/fred.deb"> > > which does the Right Thing (tm). > This assumes a 1-1 match of official web and ftp mirrors. Although I wish that were the case, it is not true.
> Who else listens on this list? Do we have a full web-team here? Do we > have anyone to replace Jay yet? (See his thread on -devel). As I said on > that thread, I'm happy to help out. I have a few ideas as to how we could > use WML in a more clever way than we currently do. Some of them require > that the WML is recompiled on each target machine. In fact, we could > possibly mirror our web servers by CVS, and then run (make all;make > install) on the target machines. (I speak in complete ignorance oif how > the system works at the moment). > The current web team is Guy - mailing list archives Ian - bug lists me - everything else You may appreciate why I am looking to break this up and have multiple webmasters. :) Unless you would like to start completely from scratch with the web mirrors, distributing the pages using CVS will not work. It took me over 6 months to get all the mirrors to turn on content negotiation on their servers and that is a 3 line change to a config file. Jason is running up against a similar problem getting the mirrors to fill out information for a new mirror list. Jay Treacy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
