From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 19 20:27:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D907416A4CE for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:27:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from luna.rtfmconsult.com (luna.rtfmconsult.com [202.83.72.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F75E43D3F for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:27:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jason@rtfmconsult.com) Received: by luna.rtfmconsult.com (Postfix, from userid 42) id CBCDF48F3E; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:27:10 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by luna.rtfmconsult.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4B5152D17 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:27:10 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:27:10 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: hubs@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: freebsd mirroring/release strategy over the next 12 months ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Distributions Hubs: mail sup ftp List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 04:27:16 -0000 hi, hopefully things have quietened down a bit after the 5.2 release. ken has been doing a bunch of work to bring the mirroring side of things uptodate and i'm just wondering what the current status of things is on the following issues: o number of architectures being supported/released - is this likely to increase ? is there a definitive list now of which sites are carrying ALL architectures and which aren't in the official mirrors ? o size of the freebsd archive - release and ISO images have been growing but the real killer has been the multi architecture packages trees. are there any plans to try and reduce this overall ? e.g not spin a packages tree of this size out for every architecture ? o coordination of 'master' sync sites and 'tier1' mirrors - it's great that there is now a US and a Europe 'master' sync site. is there a requirement to add any more ? is again time for some cleanup on who is mirroring freebsd, how completely and how often ? as 5.X release progresses i'm assuming by about 5.3/5.4 a *lot* of 4.X people will be upgrading.. on a personal note, is there enough interest in doing some work on the freebsd-archive project ? at the very least historically it'd be great to make all FreeBSD RELEASE trees available online from 1.0 onwards (does anyone still have pre 1.0 trees around somewhere?) even if holding all the package trees is.. difficult. does anyone have original ISO images from walnut creek around also ? regards, -jason