Requirements Final Draft Attempt #2 :-/

[Dan Langille]

On 1 Aug 2003 at 15:50, Oliver Fromme wrote:

> A few months ago someone mentioned another idea on this
> list, which I would like to repeat.  An automated mechanism
> could contact every FTP server (say, once per day) and
> check which collections that server is carrying, i.e. which
> releases and architectures, whether they have ISOs and the
> FTP install directories, and which package sets are there.
> 
> That information would be collected and converted into a
> "survey" of all FreeBSD mirror sites.  This file should
> be easy to parse.  That survey would be put on the master
> FTP server, and _every_ mirror would be required to sync
> that particular file often enough (say, once per day).
> It could be called /pub/FreeBSD/.mirror-info or whatever.

You should see http://www.freebsdmirrors.org/
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Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/