Site list for 4.9 announcement

Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny at jonny.eng.br
Wed Oct 8 10:53:44 PDT 2003


Somebody told me that Ken Smith said:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 08:40:56AM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> 
> > Ken, if these sites are supposed to have the packages for the release, 
> > keep ftp4.br.freebsd.org out. We are waiting for hard disks... :-(
> 
> Unless people think this is a bad idea I'll have this at the top of
> the list when I send it to re@:
> 
> The "Main Site" and "Primary Sites" will have all files related to the
> Release (ISO images, files needed to do an FTP-based install, and the
> Release set of packages).  You will probably get better performance from
> a mirror site "closer to you" (check for a mirror site in your country)
> but those sites may not carry everything (e.g. they may just carry the
> ISO's).

    I think most problems for mirrors are the packages, not the
release or ISO bits.  IMHO, You could say that "those sites may not
have the pacakges set", and it would be more generic.  Other than
that, it's ok.

					Jonny

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João Carlos Mendes Luís			jonny at jonny.eng.br
  Networking Engineer			jonny at coe.ufrj.br


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