X-Original-To: pgsql-advocacy-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D565D1B498; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:57:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 54620-08; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:56:59 -0400 (AST) Received: from CM-lcon2-51-253.cm.vtr.net (CM-lcon2-51-253.cm.vtr.net [200.83.51.253]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DFB3D1D27C; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:56:56 -0400 (AST) Received: by CM-lcon2-51-253.cm.vtr.net (Postfix, from userid 500) id E992B576A0; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:56:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:56:51 -0300 From: Alvaro Herrera To: Peter Eisentraut Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" , pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org Subject: Re: FTP Mirrors (was Re: Rewriting the website) Message-ID: <20040112205651.GE30564@dcc.uchile.cl> References: <40014281.4060908@cs.msu.su> <4002FBB8.7020405@commandprompt.com> <20040112155617.U51801@ganymede.hub.org> <200401122146.54613.peter_e@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200401122146.54613.peter_e@gmx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200401/211 X-Sequence-Number: 3393 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 () "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)