Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Jan 1999 13:22:54 -0500 (EST) | From | "Charles R. Anderson" <> | Subject | Re: us.kernel.org mirroring inconsistency |
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On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Steve VanDevender wrote:
stevev> I'm getting a bit disturbed by an inconsistency between the stevev> kernel.org mirrors. For example, I have just connected to stevev> katelyn.optilinkcomm.net, which apparently carries only bz2 files stevev> and not gz files.
Not to mention that some mirrors also do not delete files that were deleted from the master archive at ftp.kernel.org. For instance, kernel.wisewire.com has several LATEST-IS-2.2.0-preX files. I'm sticking to the closest/fastest mirror I find and using its canonical name explicitly to mirror just the latest several releases in bz2 format.
stevev> It seems to defeat the purpose if kernel.org mirrors don't stevev> actually carry the full contents of kernel.org, even accounting stevev> for any lag in pulling down new files.
Presumeably, the LKMS is only meant for end-users downloading a couple files, not for re-mirroring part of the archive. I don't think it is unreasonable in that case to require the user to get bzip2, considering its increasing popularity and benefits; at least it comes with most recent distributions. What would be nice is if tar supported bz2 directly so one could use "tar xvzf foo.tar.bz2".
Charles R. Anderson : Senior CS Major @ WPI : http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ "Open Source UNIX is shaped by people who use it. Microsoft shapes NT to respond to competitive threats." - Nicholas Petreley, NC World, June 1998
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