On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, jason andrade wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Devendra Narayan wrote: > > > > > With all these discussions about Apache mirrors, I just have this to > > say : > > We can guess that there would be many types of mirror sites : > > > > 1. Those who have enough disk space to mirror everything that Apache group > > has to offer - web documents, distributions, XML-Apache, Jakarta > > etc. > > i think these would/should be the only official mirrors for the apache > project. >
I disagree. People with excess upstream bandwidth but limited disk space can still provide a valuable service. I think it's fair to assume that Apache is still by far the most downloaded component of the apache project. Making it known which mirrors mirror which packages would be good though. See the RedHat mirrors list for a possible way of presenting this data to the user. John -- John Donagher Application Engineer Intacct Corp. - Powerful Accounting on the Web 408-395-0989 720 University Ave. Los Gatos CA 95032 www.intacct.com Public key available off http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 4024 DF50 56EE 19A3 258A D628 22DE AD56 EEBE 8DDD
