Josip Rodin wrote: > That's too optimistic, sadly. On a number of occasions I've seen people > suddenly "forget" to configure their Apaches after an upgrade or something. > It's usually that they only care about FTP for whatever reason and don't > bother to check up on HTTP.
However, it's much harder to check http (I won't do it..), and the other alternative, to drop http entirely, has been vetoed. > > I think we should set up a cron to run the check_cd_mirrors.pl every day > > (or every 3 days, but it's not very expensive to run, though it does > > take about an hour to complete) on gluck, and commit its changes to the > > Mirrors.masterlist.status (which can be done on gluck best since the cvs > > repository is there). > > Or it could simply run on www-master where the web pages get built, so we > skip all the CVS overhead. Sure.. the status file is not that important, it doesn't have to go into cvs. > > Index: english/distrib/netinst.wml > > =================================================================== > > - <li><a href="../CD/netinst/">Minimal CD</a>: > > - Instead of getting a full 650MB CD image, you just download a CD image > > - file which contains the bare essentials necessary to install the rest. > > + <li><a href="../CD/">CD</a>: > > + You download a CD image file. Minimal CD images are available, as is > > + a fast and efficient means to download a full CD from a mirror near you. > > This part I don't get. Instead of shortening the path between entering > www.d.o and getting to the netinst CDs, you've added another page to pass > through before the viewer reaches it. See the graph I posted to the gentoo thread. This page is a dead-end for anyone who wants a cd image via jigdo or from a mirror; all it lets you get currently is a unofficial netinst iso. Any yet it's linked prominently on the homepage. The patch aims to make it no longer be a dead end at least. > > Index: english/mirror/mirror_list.pl > > =================================================================== > > -open SRC, "<$mirror_source" || > > +open(SRC, "<$mirror_source") || > > Easy on the formatting... :) That's not formatting, the || die will never be called even if the file does not exist, unless you use parens. Perl parses || at a lower precidence than comma. -- see shy jo
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