Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:47:55PM -0500, Joey Hess 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 > > bot

Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 09:23:07PM +0100, Richard Atterer wrote: > Originally, the plan for 3.0r0 was that ISOs would be made available > via jigdo and that mirrors would update using the "jigdo-mirror" > script which I wrote especially for that purpose. (And I mailed all > mirror admins with the d

Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 11:45:54PM +0100, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: > > Or course it would be best if I had a canoical site to run the checking > > program against, then it could just do a straightforward comparison. > > Unfortunatly, it seems that cdimage.debian.org no longer carries isos, > > and

Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Josip Rodin wrote: > I know for a fact that mirror admins are a relatively clueless bunch, but I > also know that they can be educated given enough effort. hey, don't you be calling us debain mirror admins clueless.. -jason P.S :-) for the humour impaired. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 09:23:07PM +0100, Richard Atterer wrote: > > Originally, the plan for 3.0r0 was that ISOs would be made available > > via jigdo and that mirrors would update using the "jigdo-mirror" > > script which I wrote especially for that purpo

Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 11:45:54PM +0100, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: > > > Or course it would be best if I had a canoical site to run the checking > > > program against, then it could just do a straightforward comparison. > > > Unfortunatly, it seems that cd

Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 09:23:07PM +0100, Richard Atterer wrote: > > So let's do it their way: I propose that we offer rsync (and maybe > > HTTP?) access to the images again starting with 3.0r1. raff has enough > > disc space, so the size should not be a

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Re: Request to be listed

Hi Will, On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 12:23:53AM -0700, Will Sarka wrote: > Not sure if my last e-mail got lost in the shuffle over Thanksgiving > weekend or not. :) Could you please add cudlug.cudenver.edu to the FTP > and HTTP mirrors? Please fill out the form at

Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:08:51PM +0100, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: > > > Originally, the plan for 3.0r0 was that ISOs would be made available > > > via jigdo and that mirrors would update using the "jigdo-mirror" > > > script which I wrote especially for that purpose. (And I mailed all > > > mirro

Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Josip Rodin wrote: > Hmm. One thing, though, why keep the images locked on that machine just for > a sync that happens every few months? Plus the administrative overhead of > giving out accounts. because it works well to have one central place that mirror admins can go to at a

Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:08:36AM +1000, jason andrade wrote: > > Hmm. One thing, though, why keep the images locked on that machine just for > > a sync that happens every few months? Plus the administrative overhead of > > giving out accounts. > > because it works well to have one central place

Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Josip Rodin wrote: > Yeah, but we don't _have_ that 120 GB drive. That's a bit of a showstopper, > don't you think? :) if need be i'll try and organize one to be sent. > It should simply say "sync whatever way is fastest for you, once per point > release, leave it be in the m

Jigdo needs concept work

A proper implementation of Jigdo: 1. It is a GUI program, not a CLI program. 2. Jigdo only asks for a single link. The information at this link maintained by the head of the system, in this case some link advertised at debian download page. "Provide this _link_ when jigdo asks for your online d

Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:24:56AM +1000, jason andrade wrote: >On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Josip Rodin wrote: > >> Yeah, but we don't _have_ that 120 GB drive. That's a bit of a showstopper, >> don't you think? :) > >if need be i'll try and organize one to be sent. We're in the middle of specifying a rep

Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:08:51PM +0100, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: > A restricted rsync access to main mirrors would be good enough if we > don't want cdimage.d.o (or cdimage.us) to waste too much bandwidth. > Just so that once we have built the images with jigdo we can rsync > the directory stru

Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:26:43PM +0100, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: > On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Also, it would be very nice to have the netinst image become official > > Yes, this is probably even more important. Who makes that decision > and how do we make it happen? Support f

Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

> I asked Ryan (of DSA) about this and he told me that he'd prefer it if we > just had people use jigdo since the debian/ mirrors are plenty and likely > much faster than mirrors overloaded with heaps of rampant image downloaders. > Frankly I agree with that sentiment, there sure are plenty of bett

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

> On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 06:55:37PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > And I've modified mirror_list.pl to use the new fields to generate a list > that has only known-good mirrors on it. I took the approach of assuming > that a site's http mirror is good if its ftp mirror checks out ok. As far as your scr

CD contents....

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Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:58:48PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > Alternatively we could improve the ghastly blubbery > http://www.debian.org/CD/mirroring/ to be more to the point... Yeah, rewriting that from scratch has been long overdue. I wanted to do it at one point and then didn't know whether t

Re: Jigdo needs concept work

Hi Chris, thanks for your suggestions! Actually, I did all the "concept work" long ago, but then ran into problems finding the time to turn concepts into fact... ;) On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:49:42AM -0500, Chris Severance wrote: > 1. It is a GUI program, not a CLI program. Yes! This is planned

Re: Jigdo needs concept work

At 11:49 AM 02/12/02 -0500, Chris Severance wrote: A proper implementation of Jigdo: 1. It is a GUI program, not a CLI program. Jigdo was one mans' vision ; since you're a "Windows man" and not a "*nix buf", perhaps you could do this for the Debian community (:^) Perhaps you could finish this

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

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 har

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:47:55PM -0500, Joey Hess 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 > > bot

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

* Josip Rodin | > > > Index: english/mirror/mirror_list.pl | > > > === | > > > -open SRC, "<$mirror_source" || | > > > +open(SRC, "<$mirror_source") || | > > | > > Easy on the formatting... :) | > | > That's not formatting, the ||