On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 10:48:15PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > I haven't had a chance to populate the potato data yet. So any broken > links there are purely WML problems. > I'm going to generate a new broken url list as soon as todays mirror update is done.
> Oh, and for slink, I copies the boot-floppies materials into the > webroot for mirroring, which was a quick-hack decision but nasty > nasty. For potato, at least theoretically, we just set the > boot-floppies archive URL, say, to > http.us.debian.org/dists/potato/main/ or something, and then we don't > have to have all those megs and megs of data in place for downloading > off the web to work. > We got a lot of complaints from people who had trouble accessing the archive because too many people were using it and/or they didn't have good access to the site listed. That was why we included the files on the web site - automatic mirroring and guarantee that the URLs would work. I have no problem with pointing into an ftp archive (or archives if a DNS round-robin is used). as long as the machine(s) listed can handle the load (without hitting max users) and a reasonable portion of the world is represented. > Are you volunteering to help with the getting the potato documentation > fully web ready? That would be great. I can give you CVs > instructions. > I am willing to fix some broken links. Wish I had time to do more. -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]