Re: Downloads

[Joe Laffey <joe@laffeycomputer.com>]

On Thu, 15 May 2003, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

> On Thu, 15 May 2003, Joe Laffey wrote:
> > I run the mirror mirrors.laffeycomputer.com. I notcie that a good number
> > of people are too ignorant to read the documentation first, and they
> > download ALL the files within the directory of a particular release.
>
> Ouch.  Thanks for letting us know!

No problem. I was just amazed at how many people were doing this!

>
> > I bet you could save yourself and the mirrors (and the users) some
> > bandwidth by placing all of the individual files that are included in the
> > main tarball (e.g. gcc-3.3.tar.gz) into a subfolder called something like
> > "separate_components".
>
> This is an excellent suggestion, and unless there are strong objection,
> I will move all components and diff files into new subdirectories called
> "components" and "diffs", respectively, tomorrow morning.


I might suggest notifying the mirror operators if possible, as changing
the structure could mess up some mirroring scripts (or cause two copies of
everything, one in the old location and one in the new).

Thanks,

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