Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-mirrors-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 90522 invoked by uid 500); 6 Jun 2001 03:54:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact mirrors-help@apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Reply-To: mirrors@apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list mirrors@apache.org Received: (qmail 90510 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2001 03:54:59 -0000 Sender: narayan@SunSITE.sut.ac.jp Message-ID: <3B1DA996.CBD8955@cc.kagu.sut.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 12:55:02 +0900 From: Devendra Narayan Organization: Science University of Tokyo X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mirrors@apache.org Subject: Apache mirror system - comments References: <3B1D9D5A.3C015B2C@cc.kagu.sut.ac.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N With all these discussions about Apache mirrors, I just have this to say : We can guess that there would be many types of mirror sites : 1. Those who have enough disk space to mirror everything that Apache group has to offer - web documents, distributions, XML-Apache, Jakarta etc. 2. People like me, who are short on disk space, may just want to mirror the web documents and one of the dists ( httpd, Jakarta etc. ). So the web docs module ( apache-site ) shouldn't contain any of the dists which should all be available separately. 3. Others, who are even shorter on disk space, may want to mirror just one dist. .... Possible other types of mirror sites Wouldn't it be great if most/all such mirror administrators could be satisfied ? Let's just devise a system ( using rsync ) where most/all the above needs can be satisfied and provide easy to use instructions for the mirror admins. In any case, all the packages/ modules offered for mirroring should be self contained ( with relative URLs / pointers etc. ). Comments or suggestions, please ? One question - how to instruct rsync to ignore a local file/dir/link when mirroring ? -------------------------------------------------------- Devendra Narayan Senior Engineer, Information Systems Division, Science University of Tokyo, "When it comes to thought, some people stop at nothing." ---------------------------------------------------------