Requirements Final Draft Attempt #2 :-/

[João Carlos Mendes Luís]

Oliver Fromme wrote:

> Dan Langille wrote:
>  > 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/
> 
> I know that one.  It has some similarities to my suggestion,
> but it's not exactly the same.

1) Does not allow for sites off-DNS, currently
2) It's outside FreeBSD.org control.

     We could use help or ideas from him, but not implement the same 
way.  I prefer Oliver's.  It's more powerful, distributed, reliable and 
automated.

                                         Jonny

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