On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 02:51:28PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > I hope to dismantle the sites mirroring incoming in favor of > > > direct access, it ultimately will use less bandwidth/cpu. > > > > this is bad. sometimes installing stuff from incoming is essential > > because packages in unstable depend on new packages which haven't > > made > > So? You can download it (slowly if need be) from the US or wait for it > to hit the mirrors.
when a machine just got hosed because of a recent upgrade, i want to be able to fix it immediately by using the packages which are in my incoming mirror. they're already there, I can examine them immediately with 'dpkg -I', 'dpkg -c' and read the changelogs etc before installing, AND i don't have to wait for a (potentially very slow) download over undersized (i.e. small and slow) trans-pacific links. it does no harm to have incoming mirrors, and it demonstrably causes harm to prevent them. > Master is pretty well connected so I doubt it is horridly slow from > anyplace in the world. most of the world is nowhere near as well-connected as the US. speeds you can take for granted are almost unheard of elsewhere - that's one of the main reasons why mirror sites (for anything, not just debian Incoming) exist. craig -- craig sanders