On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:32:12AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:51:40 +0100, Sven Luther > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 08:04:53PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > >> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:11:01 +0100, Sven Luther > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >Well, it just calls for smarther mirroring tricks. > >> > >> Do not expect mirror admins to run Debian, and to be willing to pull > >> smart mirroring tricks. > > > >What do they use now ? > > I know the mirror admin of one of the tier-2-Mirrors. His box runs > RedHat, and mirrors Redhat, SuSe, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, kernel.org and a > bunch of other sites, and he uses plain rsync.
Even plain rsync can do smart things. > I am not even sure whether ftp2.de.debian.org even pulls tricks to > mirror the pool first and dists last. > > >And does it not allow already to mirror only woody or > >only some arches ? > > How can tht be accomplished without reading the Packages files? Well, it could be done by doing a first mirroring from the main archive to some special url the mirrors get, this is the most naive solution, i am sure there are many more. > > Or at least there is plan to allow for this ? > > I hope so, but our ftpmasters seem to be committed to reduce archive > sites by completely dropping arches. That is the new development, previously per-arch mirroring, or dropping some arches from the mirror network was considered, so there must be a solution for that. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]