From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6063 invoked by alias); 12 Dec 2001 23:58:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 5721 invoked from network); 12 Dec 2001 23:56:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (199.232.76.164) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 Dec 2001 23:56:44 -0000 Received: from jaj.com ([209.64.26.3] helo=disaster.jaj.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 16EJEw-0008Q1-00 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 18:56:43 -0500 Received: (from pedwards@localhost) by disaster.jaj.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA10711; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 19:01:00 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:54:00 -0000 From: Phil Edwards To: Matthew Langford Cc: Gerald Pfeifer , gcc@gnu.org Subject: Re: http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html Message-ID: <20011212190100.A10665@disaster.jaj.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from langfml@Eng.Auburn.EDU on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 04:08:38PM -0600 X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00677.txt.bz2 Matthew Langford wrote: > Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > We only list those mirror sites that inform us that they want to be > > listed. > > Do these sites have to mirror all the GCC pages or just the release > directories? Sites can mirror whatever subset of stuff they want to mirror. It's their diskspace, after all. > You _know_ they are mirroring, and they are mirroring a > gzipped release of your software. Why not mention _them_ on your > downloads page? Maybe they don't want the entire world downloading from them. People choose to mirror software for reasons /other/ than making it available to everyone else out there. I used to mirror a subset of the Linux kernel patches repository, but it was for me and my colleagues in the same building, not for the rest of the planet. Listing me as a "mirror site" would have been harmful, not helpful. > You are making people come to you, like it's a special privilege to mirror > GCC, In a way it is: known mirror sites are allowed to bypass some (all?) of the connection limits on the FTP server. Phil -- If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. - Samuel Adams