Mirror Site Requirements - Summary thus far...

[jason andrade]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Dan Langille wrote:

> If we agree the above is true, then it's not so important for a
> mirror to carry the files which the general public will not want.  At
> present, I'd say the general public wants 4.8-RELEASE.  Yes, some of
> them will even want 5.*.  But apart from that, what else do they
> want?

95% of them want ISO images for releases.  freebsd users may be more
sophisticated than linux ones.. so maybe 85% say..

out of that, the iso requirement is well served at the moment.

a mini install iso one (great stuff!) and a 'full' iso release of
2 cds which has the full install tree plus a bunch of packages.

the remainder of people do net installs and so it is a good
idea to have a complete release tree and associated package
tree of the following:

i386 (majority)
alpha (i am guessing 2nd most used but can someone from the freebsd
       group please correct me)
sparc64
pc98


if as a minimum subset all tier1s and tier2s could carry a complete
4.8-R and 5.1-R plus their i386 packages and ISOs, that'd work for me..

regards,

-jason