Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 20:09:01 +0100 From: Tim Bishop <tim-lists@bishnet.net> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> Cc: hubs@freebsd.org, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>, Cluster Administrators <clusteradm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkgng mirrors Message-ID: <20120905190901.GK66364@carrick-users.bishnet.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1209051731340.98832@ai.fobar.qr> References: <20120905112013.2d44783c@laptop> <09CB99A0-75BC-426C-BD44-9ACC7CD741D1@exonetric.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1209050925180.98832@ai.fobar.qr> <20551.35538.119912.329917@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1209051731340.98832@ai.fobar.qr>
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On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 06:35:48PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > ... we need it, especially if run well (though the majority of mirrors > sadly aren't run well); ... I run mirrorservice.org so I've interacted with quite a few open source projects that have their stuff mirrored by third parties. The FreeBSD system seems fairly primitive compared to others; whilst you have various things to check the status of the mirrors there's nothing (as far as I know) automatically happening with it. Other projects have systems to automatically remove mirrors from listings if they're not updating properly or are missing content. If FreeBSD was to do something similar you'd be able to retain a well established mirror network whilst effectively weeding out broken sites. That said, 10TB worth of packages? That's a lot and I can imagine most mirrors couldn't handle that quantity of data. Tim. -- Tim Bishop http://www.bishnet.net/tim/ PGP Key: 0x5AE7D984
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