Re: [Fwd: ftp probs]

[Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>> Jeff, currently the "new snapshot is now available" mails directly
>> specify "egcs.cygnus.com:/pub/egcs/snapshots/2000-06-19". Would you
>> mind changing that to " http://gcc.gnu.org/snapshots.html "?
> I don't mind changing it; however, we need to make it clear to folks not
> using web browswers how to get snapshots too.  ie, we need to note at
> least one site that can be used via raw ftp.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Suggestions?

I see three possibilities:

 1. Delaying the announcement by several hours

    This probably is useful in any case, as many folks tend to download
    something immediately once it has been announced; without such a delay
    they definitely will use the main site.

 2. I believe these snapshots are done from cron, so we can (and I'm
    willing to take care of that -- just tell me the day and time) tell
    the folks at ftp.freesoftware.com when to synchronize.

 3. We can check whether the folks there can mirror every hour. If it's
    done properly, a mirror run when there has been no change should be
    cheap, essentially a dir list.

Combining 1. and either one of 2. and 3. seems to make sense. To me at
least! ;-)

Gerald
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