From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: DJ Delorie To: law@cygnus.com Cc: pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at, overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com, jason-swarelist@molenda.com, cgf@cygnus.com, kingdon@panix.com, shebs@shebs.cnchost.com Subject: Re: [Fwd: ftp probs] Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 08:39:00 -0000 Message-ID: <200006211539.LAA11439@envy.delorie.com> References: <9655.961600732@upchuck> X-SW-Source: 2000-q2/msg00371.html Message-ID: <20000621083900.z1S9RbMI_1Db4PfzmCWmGPYK6rw5fExWuWDCHvaLxnc@z> > I don't see how we can do that and list a mirror since the snapshot process > won't know when mirrors have sucked down the latest snapshot. What cygwin does is mention the URL for the mirror sites first, and then says "or sourceware's heavily overloaded ftp server [here]". That gives them the option but makes it clear that they should use the mirrors if possible. DJGPP's mail says "will be on the mirrors within the next day or so" but then there is no other way to get DJGPP so they have to wait. In the cygwin group we've taken the position that people needing snapshots faster than that should use [incremental] cvs anyway. I just changed cygwin's snapshot process to run every three days instead of every day, and we've been reducing the number of stored snapshots as well. I'll also start switching from gzip to bzip.