Mirror Site Requirements - Final Draft?

[João Carlos Mendes Luís]

Brian Poole wrote:
> Quoting Joo Carlos Mendes Lus (jonny at jonny.eng.br) from 27 July 2003:
> 
>>Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On 2003.07.27 15:27:24 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>4) Directory archive sits in is /pub/FreeBSD.
>>>
>>>At least ftp9.freebsd.org doesn't do this... Is it that important, since
>>>the FreeBSD mirror directory is mentioned in the Handbook?
> 
> Right-o. We never have either, it was known when we signed up (3+ 
> years ago?) that this was the case. We'll either become an unofficial
> mirror or add an alias to separate the OS mirrors from the rest of 
> our archives.
> 
>>It's important.  Think sysinstall...
> 
> 
> Agreed, for some reason I was under the impression that sysintall had
> a way of handling this but looking at the code it doesn't appear to. 
> Official mirrors should meet this requirement if the install scripts
> don't have a method for handling mirrors with different directory
> structures.  OpenBSD handles this by leaving the ftplist on the master
> site and the ftplist includes the directory as well as hostname. I'm

     This sounds good!  And we can have a first guess in cache 
(sysinstall) for when it's not possible to reach the mirror list site.

                                         Jonny

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