Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-12-04 Thread Joey Hess
era eriksson wrote: > I'm afraid your definition of "down" is a bit restrictive. I believe > that e.g. mirrors.sunsite.dk will actually work for users in .dk but > not allow access to others. I'm not sure if this is a happy solution, > but the benefit of their mirroring anything at all is certainly

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-12-04 Thread Joey Hess
era eriksson wrote: > I'm afraid your definition of "down" is a bit restrictive. I believe > that e.g. mirrors.sunsite.dk will actually work for users in .dk but > not allow access to others. I'm not sure if this is a happy solution, > but the benefit of their mirroring anything at all is certainly

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-12-04 Thread era eriksson
Sorry for not having proper References:, I am not on the list and so have to refer to the web archive which doesn't display Message-Id. On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 18:55:37 -0500, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The fields are chosen so we can run this program every few days, > and stop pointing

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-12-03 Thread era eriksson
Sorry for not having proper References:, I am not on the list and so have to refer to the web archive which doesn't display Message-Id. On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 18:55:37 -0500, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The fields are chosen so we can run this program every few days, > and stop pointing

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-12-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Josip Rodin | > > > Index: english/mirror/mirror_list.pl | > > > === | > > > -open SRC, "<$mirror_source" || | > > > +open(SRC, "<$mirror_source") || | > > | > > Easy on the formatting... :) | > | > That's not formatting, the ||

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-12-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Josip Rodin | > > > Index: english/mirror/mirror_list.pl | > > > === | > > > -open SRC, "<$mirror_source" || | > > > +open(SRC, "<$mirror_source") || | > > | > > Easy on the formatting... :) | > | > That's not formatting, the ||

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-12-02 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:47:55PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > That's too optimistic, sadly. On a number of occasions I've seen people > > suddenly "forget" to configure their Apaches after an upgrade or something. > > It's usually that they only care about FTP for whatever reason and don't > > bot

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-12-02 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:47:55PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > That's too optimistic, sadly. On a number of occasions I've seen people > > suddenly "forget" to configure their Apaches after an upgrade or something. > > It's usually that they only care about FTP for whatever reason and don't > > bot

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-12-02 Thread Joey Hess
Josip Rodin wrote: > That's too optimistic, sadly. On a number of occasions I've seen people > suddenly "forget" to configure their Apaches after an upgrade or something. > It's usually that they only care about FTP for whatever reason and don't > bother to check up on HTTP. However, it's much har

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-12-02 Thread Scott Kveton
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 06:55:37PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > And I've modified mirror_list.pl to use the new fields to generate a list > that has only known-good mirrors on it. I took the approach of assuming > that a site's http mirror is good if its ftp mirror checks out ok. As far as your scr

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-12-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 08:29:22AM -0600, Josip Rodin wrote: > > mkdir -p 3.0_r0/i386 > > mv * 3.0_r0/i386 > I won't do that, for precisely the same reasons you've started this whole > thread: faster/easier availability to users. Oh for heaven's sake, don't be difficult for the sake of it. mkdir

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-12-01 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 04:11:39PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > (That's a LUG site which holds images for a bunch of distros. I didn't feel > > like creating a directory structure for something like that because it's > > only those few i386 binaries that are in there (no space or interest for > > ot

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-12-01 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 06:55:37PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > And I've modified mirror_list.pl to use the new fields to generate a list > that has only known-good mirrors on it. I took the approach of assuming > that a site's http mirror is good if its ftp mirror checks out ok. That's too optimisti

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-11-30 Thread Joey Hess
I've more or less funished up the program to check the status of our ftp cdrom mirrors. My program generates a Mirrors.masterlist.status file, with some fields to indicate the state of the mirrors. The fields are chosen so we can run this program every few days, and stop pointing to a mirror if it

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-11-30 Thread Joey Hess
Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 03:24:43PM +1000, jason andrade wrote: > > > Many sites have old isos, or no isos, or a nonstandard directory >~ > > > structure or filenames, earning a 0 in the "binary" column. And of

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-11-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 03:24:43PM +1000, jason andrade wrote: > > Many sites have old isos, or no isos, or a nonstandard directory ~ > > structure or filenames, earning a 0 in the "binary" column. And of ~ > > course a

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-11-30 Thread Joey Hess
Heikki Vatiainen wrote: > It may be that those servers are functioning correctly. Does you > client do something like $ftp->type("I"); to ask for non-translated > files? I think you're right, I'm getting far fewer question marks in the report after calling $ftp->binary. The remaining ones are pro

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-11-30 Thread Joey Hess
jason andrade wrote: > for us, the non us *is* the first binary image and source. we explicitly > only mirror the non us image and symlink to it as we are not a US site and > it doesn't seem to make any sense to carry two "image1" iso images where > one is a superset of the other. I still think t

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-11-30 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A few places have question marks; this is where the file exists, but > seems to have the wrong size. I think some/all of those are really ok, > and are due to weirdness in the ftp SIZE command on some servers. It may be that those servers are functioning co

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-11-30 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, jason andrade wrote: > On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Many sites have old isos, or no isos, or a nonstandard directory > > structure or filenames, earning a 0 in the "binary" column. And of > > course a lot of mirrors don't have source. > > hmm, i have been skippi

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-11-30 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Joey Hess wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > Here is the current state of the cdrom mirror network. I decided not to > > try to track yada files since the web site only links to 2 mirrors for > > yada stuff. I added source cd checking. It only checks the first image > > for US and

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-11-29 Thread jason andrade
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Joey Hess wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > Here is the current state of the cdrom mirror network. I decided not to > > try to track yada files since the web site only links to 2 mirrors for > > yada stuff. I added source cd checking. It only checks the first image > > for US and

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-11-29 Thread jason andrade
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Joey Hess wrote: > Many sites have old isos, or no isos, or a nonstandard directory > structure or filenames, earning a 0 in the "binary" column. And of > course a lot of mirrors don't have source. hmm, i have been skipping most of this thread. what new isos ? i was under th

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-11-29 Thread Joey Hess
Oh and here (attached) is a full log of all the ftp sessions, if anyone wants to know why their mirror failed or anything. -- see shy jo log.gz Description: Binary data msg04880/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-11-29 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > Here is the current state of the cdrom mirror network. I decided not to > try to track yada files since the web site only links to 2 mirrors for > yada stuff. I added source cd checking. It only checks the first image > for US and non-US. Correction, it checks for the first imag

state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-11-29 Thread Joey Hess
Here is the current state of the cdrom mirror network. I decided not to try to track yada files since the web site only links to 2 mirrors for yada stuff. I added source cd checking. It only checks the first image for US and non-US. A few places have question marks; this is where the file exists,