On Friday, April 13, 2007 at 17:21:14 -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote: >Maurice Janssen wrote: >>On Friday, April 13, 2007 at 15:16:41 -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote: >>>If there was a real concrete effort, not just the usual vapor ware, I >>>would/could offer hosting in Equinix peering point, for downloading >>>binaries, >> >>That's in the US? Is that OK with regard to export restrictions? > >Hmmm... You got a point there. I always forget about the backward >mentality of some leaders (hmmm, wonder if the term apply really) in >this place where they think everyone else is behind in technology, etc. > >But download of files is available from many Universities in the US as >well. Are they blocking the download for US only?
I guess most of the time, it isn't checked. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't do it by the book. >So, I can't do it then, can I, not even built the binaries either? As far as I understand it, both code and binaries are not allowed to be exported. But IANAL, I'd be happy to hear that I've got it all wrong. Perhaps you could put some information and links on the openbsdsupport.org website. That would be a start. The actual files can be hosted somewhere else. In the meantime, I tried to set things up for building stable releases. - i386 and sparc64 do it in about a day on my rather old and slow hardware. - sparc and vax are still crunching. - I've had some problems with alpha and hppa. But as these are probably not the most popular platforms, I guess this is not critical for now. I hope to fix this soon. So I guess we need a place with good connecticity to host the files. It's less than 200 MB per architecture, but I have no idea how much traffic it'll generate. Maurice
