Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 19:22:58 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Oyvind Moll <oyvindmo@pvv.ntnu.no>, FreeBSD Advocacy <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: distfiles Message-ID: <XFMail.981118192258.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <dslyap8rjje.fsf@apollo.orakel.ntnu.no>
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Hejsa Oyvind... On 18-Nov-98 Oyvind Moll wrote: > * Jeroen Ruigrok >| >| On 17-Nov-98 Satoshi Asami wrote: >| >| > (1) Find backup sites on different continents. Having five sites in >| > Japan is not going to help if the inter-Pacific link is down. >| >| ftpsearch might be a good use for this... ftpsearch.ntnu.no > I thought about this a few months ago. It would be really nice if > ftpsearch was queried at the time of distfile retrieval. Considering > that ftpsearch offers (crude?) sorting by distance to host as well as > limiting to specific domains, it could automate fetching distfiles > from nearby sites. Good idea IMO. As the problem we now are facing is that most packages are dynamically floating around from ftpsite to ftpsite. (PITA ;) > Is this doable; dynamically finding a distsite through a search > engine? It might have to involve getting an MD5 hash from ftpsearch > to ensure that it's the right file, but perhaps that is already in > there. MD5 checksums oughtta be the same for a given file no matter where taken from. So why should FTPSearch provide the MD5 hash? > The main author of ftpsearch (now ftpsearch.lycos.com, btw) -- Tor > Egge -- is a FreeBSD guy, as you might know, so getting some info on > how to do this effectively and robustly should be doable. He might > not resist being coaxed into storing MD5s for distfiles, if they're > not already there. Well, he might be interested in promoting FreeBSD by means of stats for the site? Just like wcarchive.cdrom.com. (CC: to advocacy =) The thing I am wondering about is the fact how we are going to parse the results back to the client and how to provide a means of selecting the distsites. Heh, might even mean another of out (in?)famous native utilities =) Thoughts? > Am I talking nonsense? No, english ;) --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl | Cum angelis et pueris, Junior Network/Security Specialist | fideles inveniamur *BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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