Regarding Fedora, I find that the mirrors differ significantly. Some have old releases, but no new releases. Some have the latest release but no updates. Some may have the alphas and/or the betas. Using yum, I have had some updates fail because they have dependencies that have not reached the mirrors that yum wants to use, making me wait a few days until the mirrors catch up. Adding in unofficial repositories complicates it even more.
On Jan 4, 2013, at 4:18 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.helli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:06 PM, DM Smith <dmsm...@crosswire.org> wrote: >> If someone posts to sword-support a problem with the text in a module (we >> get these all the time), having mirrors complicates support. > > If Fedora can have many dozen mirrors, and Debian can have many dozen > mirrors and so can every Linux distribution out there, is it so hard > for us to have mirrors when it comes down to it? Each of these has > requirements for what a mirror MUST, SHOULD and MAY provide and they > have a vetting process when someone wants to become an official mirror > they ensure that the offer follows those requirements. > > For the most part those requirements boil down to: provide the > mandatory parts of the distribution with the same layout they have on > the master, and update at minimum every X hours or days. That's hardly > a burdensome task to setup, consisting mostly of a handful of options > to something like rsync. If we wanted to have official mirrors we > could be sure anyone offering followed those requirements and then add > them to a master list of mirrors. It's not that complicated to require > and it's not that complicated to configure. Many people offering to > setup mirrors would already be familiar with the methods and > requirements. > > Yes, licensing would still be an entirely different issue, but the > technical implications of offering a mirror system for a pure list of > files is not difficult. And certainly it's not more difficult than > offering ISO images for users to download and encouraging them to be > able to share them with friends! > > --Greg > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
