From owner-freebsd-hubs Tue Mar 25 5:14:23 2003 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 72D0E37B401; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 05:14:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from luna.rtfmconsult.com (luna.rtfmconsult.com [202.83.72.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4A4943F85; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 05:14:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jason@rtfmconsult.com) Received: by luna.rtfmconsult.com (Postfix, from userid 42) id 24D8E48E6F; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 23:14:18 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by luna.rtfmconsult.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B9F552D92; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 23:14:18 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 23:14:17 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: Murray Stokely Cc: Kris Kennaway , "" Subject: Re: 4.8 i386 packages uploaded In-Reply-To: <20030325014010.C208@freebsdmall.com> Message-ID: References: <20030325060738.GA3313@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030325014010.C208@freebsdmall.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-31.9 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_PINE autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Murray Stokely wrote: > I don't think there was an announcement to hubs@ about it. I also > don't think that reading emails and manually kicking off the mirror > script is a very efficient way to run a mirror site. Can't you just > mirror via cron, maybe with a little sanity checking on your mirror > configuration? we try and automate parts of the mirroring but prefer to do the syncing of new releases in most cases manually for a couple of reasons (perhaps some now historical) o we can't keep an exact duplicate of what is on ftp-master at all times, e.g for disk space reasons. o we have had issues in the past with updates taking so long in some cases that they rolled into each other. o a large chunk of the freebsd site doesn't seem to change anyway and i guess we could just exclude it from an automatic mirror process but it has been easier to simply manually sync up new stuff via scripts. > Announcements do not go to hubs@ everytime something is placed on the > FTP site, they are only sent to hubs@ during major releases so that we > may coordinate and make sure the bits get to all of the right places > in time. that's fair enough - i guess i was hoping there would be a mail when "significant" things were going to be coming out, e.g the 4.8-R package tree notice that came out. for some of us the addition of another 5-10G might mean 2-4 days of syncing as well as a large chunk of disk disappearing in one hit. i consider the release trees/isos and RC trees/isos significant. probably much less so for generic updates to distfiles or a new package build. i'll try and check the web pages more frequently and see if i can tune our scripts a bit more towards automating this part of the updates cycle. regards, -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message