Mirror Requirements - Last question?

Ken Smith kensmith at cse.Buffalo.EDU
Fri Jul 18 11:18:27 PDT 2003


On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 01:53:47PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:

> Where do the "other" mirrors fit in?  Some mirrors don't even cover 
> the full production release.  Just bin/floppies/tools etc.

Just my opinion, open to suggestions...

They fall under "Unofficial Mirrors".  No mention in sysinstall or on
the Web pages.  If they're not carrying enough to cover the full
production release then they're mirroring stuff that handles their own
purposes.  But are they carrying enough for us to suggest that users
go there looking for stuff?  That's what I'm trying to settle.  What
is the minimum amount of stuff a site should have for us to feel
good about suggesting users go there looking for stuff?

Short of doing some sort of poll, all I can come up with is that
users will want to "Get FreeBSD" from the site.  That means either
an ISO download or an FTP-based install as far as the FTP systems
go (they can get lots more related to FreeBSD but that's the Web
sites and/or the cvsup sites).

That's the category I fall under.  I carry everything but I'm not an
Official Mirror, I rsync from ftp12.  Our FTP server is already high
enough on the campus network folks' radar because of a few other things
we carry that we are official mirrors for.  I still want to contribute
*something* to the FreeBSD project so I ... well, you know...  ;-)

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