Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 11:51:58PM -0400, Kevin Koltzau wrote:
On Wednesday 28 July 2004 04:36 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Your help is much appreciated. This is a tricky issue it seems as SF isn't always reliable for downloads...
Gentoo handles this situation fairly well, it simply uses a URL format 'mirror://sourceforge/project/file'
and has a small database of sourceforge base urls that are tried in a round robbin until all are attempted
or the file is successfully downloaded. Possibly a solution similar to this may work for us
I still don't understand why we need all this complication. All you need to do is
to have a
*private* list of such mirrors, and to simply poll them after uploading until you can
successfully download the file from one of them. At that point, use that mirror's
address
to publish the release on WineHQ.
Actually, running a gentoo mirror myself (il1.rsync.gentoo.org), the way
gentoo handles the mirrors is to sync the distro several days in advance
with permissions preventing anyone (except us :-D ) from getting it, and
then rsyncing just the permission change.
This allows more or less simultaneous release on all mirrors.
Shachar
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