Bruce Perens writes ("Re: package uploading probs "): > Regional upload directories make sense. What we really need is a script > (a hack of the mirror program) to "mirror" all files from a remote system > and remove the files from the remote once they have been copied sucessfully. > If we can't do that immediately, we can at least establish the regional > upload sites and let their local caretakers remove files as appropriate. > Note that the upload directory should not be part of your Debian mirror > lest we create a short circuit and blow the main fuse of the Internet :-) .
Right. > Ian Jackson, can you provide one in Cambridge? Is there someone who can > provide one in Germany? There are lots of other places that need them as > well. chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk:/debian/private/Incoming Matt, can you mirror this somewhere ? I have a script that one can run out of cron that uses rcp and rsh md5sum to upload a file. That might be suitable for use in these circumstances. Suppose we arrange for users to upload things to the `local' Incoming, and then rename them into a `togo' or `ok' directory. Then the script picks them up and rcp's them across, deleting them a while later. Hmm, I can do this. In the meantime, Matt, mirror that in a directory. Ian.