> > Mark Murray would know :-)
> >
> > I think there's a lot of stale cruft on ftp.internat.freebsd.org which
> > doesn't need to be mirrored - Mark could probably tell us all which bits
> > are suitable for mirroring (this should be documented somewhere for
> > posterity)
Mostly packages and distfiles.
> <covering_in_asbestos>
> mirroring of all that stuff should be migrated to rsync(1), since this
> implicitly defines (in terms of standard archive'/distribution handling)
> a structured "package" like layout, so we would have several collections
> (freebsd-ftp/ freebsd-www/ freebsd-crypto-US/ freebsd-crypto-nonUS/ and
> so on...)
> thus, it would be easier to set up a mirror, the paths would be more
> standard, the updates would be better in sync (since rsync really does a
> good job in not just only checking if a file has a new datestamp) and
> the world would be a bit better ;-)
> </covering_in_asbestos>
I could do this. What arre the setup concerns?
M
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