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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: FTP Mirrors (was Re: Rewriting the website)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:56:51 -0300
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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?

-- 
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"La experiencia nos dice que el hombre peló millones de veces las patatas,
pero era forzoso admitir la posibilidad de que en un caso entre millones,
las patatas pelarían al hombre" (Ijon Tichy)

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