From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13339 invoked by alias); 15 May 2003 19:21:06 -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 13214 invoked from network); 15 May 2003 19:21:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ubermail.laffeycomputer.com) (66.165.104.104) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 15 May 2003 19:21:03 -0000 Received: from alfred (alfred [66.165.104.104]) by ubermail.laffeycomputer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5395E25802; Thu, 15 May 2003 14:21:03 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 19:21:00 -0000 From: Joe Laffey To: Gerald Pfeifer Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Mark Mitchell Subject: Re: Downloads In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg01543.txt.bz2 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, -- Joe Laffey | Want to convert subnet masks between different LAFFEY Computer Imaging | notations, or figure the number of IPs in a block? St. Louis, MO | Whatmask-It's FREE - www.laffeycomputer.com/wm.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------