Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] address@hidden: nongnu mirror]

[Stephan Peijnik]

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 08:26:59AM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 06:16:11PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> >     because at the time, sysadmin@ believed listing 2500+ projects would
> >     be resource-consuming for both Savannah and the client.
> > 
> > True enough, but it seems difficult to know what is available without a
> > listing.  This mirror -- unlike most, granted -- only provides http
> > access,
> 
> What about rsync? :)
> 
> > which complicates things.  If you know what you're looking for
> > and are accessing it from the project page, fine.
> 
> Usually this is how people access the files, through the project page.
> 
> > How about making a separate page listing all the projects, and
> > providing a link to it?  It also seems pretty basic to provide a find -name
> > listing, if you're not already, as in find -name | gzip >find.txt.gz.
> > Could give a link to that too.
> 
> I guess we could just open the directory index, I don't think it is
> such a big deal perf-wise. Did so.
> 
> 
> > By the way, for mirmon purposes, we'll also want a cron job like this:
> > 17 * * * * date +%s > /path/to/ftp/root>/mirror-updated-timestamp.txt 
> 
> Did so:
> http://dl.sv.gnu.org/releases/00_TIME.txt
> 
> (beware of the '%' cron madness, you need to escape it or the rest of
> the line will be considered text to feed as stdin)
> 
> >     This could be changed to a mirror listing page.
> > 
> > http://dl.sv.gnu.org/releases/ still comes up blank for me.
> 
> You need to reload the page. It happened to me too.
> (you've got a bad state of mind, imagining that the problem could come
> from my end :p)
> 
> > I was figuring that we would maintain the list in a sibling file to the
> > list of ftp.gnu.org mirrors (that is on http://gnu.org/prep), and then
> > synthesize an HTML file for them, again, analogous to ftp.gnu.org.
> 
> Like this?
> http://dl.sv.gnu.org/releases/00_MIRRORS.html
> 
> -- 
> Sylvain
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