[Hosting] bandwidth slammed

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 17:24, Chris Hedemark wrote:

> Ah but ports isn't just something for *BSD either (though it originated
> there).  I've heard of Linux distros that do the same thing.  Isn't
> Gentoo one of them?

Gentoo uses their own portage system that they designed, but
that they admit was inspired by the bsd ports tree.  I believe,
however, that their system does a lot more than the bsd ports
does.
 
> I disagree, only because I think we should in the case of Linux *and*
> BSD distros, try to mimic the paths that are used by the host we're
> mirroring so that installation disks will default to the right directory
> of our server.  Though I don't think Red Hat defaults to any directory,
> several other popular OS's do (like OpenBSD, though we aren't mirroring
> that (yet)).

Actually, I think we should make sure within each thing we're mirroring
that the directories are the same, but each mirror site I know of
has different locations for things.  For example, ibiblio uses
/pub/Linux/distributions for it's distributions tree.  tux.org
just uses /distributions.  As long as it's the same within each
thing you're mirroring (i.e. redhat, mandrake, etc...) I think it's 
fine.

Tanner
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