Subject: Re: FTP Mirrors (was Re: Rewriting the website)
From: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>,
	"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
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Date: 14 Jan 2004 16:21:46 -0500
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On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 14:18, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 09:46:54PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > > > ftp is beign mirrored to 103 sites ...
> > >
> > > Would it be possible to make the FTP mirrors all use the same
> > > directory structure?  Currently, to pick random examples, we have
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/v7.4.1
> > > ftp://ftp.it.postgresql.org/mirror/postgresql/v7.4.1
> > > ftp://ftp.fr.postgresql.org/v7.4.1
> > > ftp://ftp.au.postgresql.org/...? I can't even find it right away.
> >
> > I think the problem is that the people in charge don't always care
> > about that.  For a very stupid example, see ftp.cl.postgresql.org
> > where Postgres is located in the /pub/GNU dir, and it is the only
> > subdir of it.  Isn't that silly?
> 
> If they don't care, don't let them be (official) mirrors.
> 

Hmm... I think the current view is it's better to have a mirror with a
different directory than no mirror at all. it's easily dealt with from
the website side of things but just generating the appropriate links. do
you have a breakdown on what the official directory structure ought to
look like, and how many mirrors would be affected if we dropped them for
non-compliance?  

(note even if we don't shut them off, i do think we could suggest a
"preferred directory structure" in the non-existent "howto mirror" doc
that dave and i send out)

Robert Treat
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