Mirror Site Requirements - Final Draft?

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2003.07.27 16:22:28 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 10:06:42PM +0200, 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?
> > 
> > I can see the benefit for users from having all mirrors having the
> > /pub/FreeBSD directory, but some large mirrors might like to subdivide
> > their mirrors and it would be a shame to disqualify them on this reason
> > alone.
> 
> I inherited that requirement from the existing docs so I don't know
> exactly what prompted it as a requirement.  I *think* it has to
> do with sysinstall in install-via-ftp mode but that's just a guess.
> Does anyone else know for sure?

I just did a quick check in the sysinstall source, and it appears like
you are right.  From what I can see sysinstall does require the files to
be in pub/FreeBSD...

Sorry about the noice.

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Simon L. Nielsen
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