I have recently noticed serious issues with collections from the FreeBSD source tree maintained on cvsup.au.freebsd.org (cvsup.planetmirror.com), and have sought to compare it to two of the US servers, cvsup3 and cvsup4, and have found that cvsup.au.freebsd.org seems to be very wrong, with most of the ports tree being deleted when using the Australian mirror. I have also tried using cvsup2.au.freebsd.org but I have noticed that it seems to be very out of date (when compared to cvsup3.freebsd.org) and frequently unavailable (it must only allow a very limited number of clients). All the other Australian mirrors are just pointed at these two hosts. I notified [EMAIL PROTECTED] over a month ago but it has not as yet been corrected.
Is there someone responsible for monitoring the 'health' of CVSup mirrors? It would seem that people who have offered to host mirrors aren't always doing the right thing and maintaining them in a useful state. I'd really hate to see anyone have issues because they are using scripts to handle their updating and they weren't made aware of the problem. Perhaps some sort of automated auditing of the health yearly or quarterly might be in order. You could even produce trending data to show how far behind the main CVS tree each server is. Anyway, I guess for now I will have to keep using one of the US mirrors. Chris Martin _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
