Non-US Mirror System
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Mon Feb 23 14:12:00 GMT 2004
Since Chris doesn't seem to want to come right out and say it for
everyone to understand, I'll say it:
It is time that we devise a way for setup.exe to work with both a
General and Non-US mirror system, similar to how Debian does it.
setup.exe can already handle specifying additional mirrors for packages,
but if we are going to push all encryption-related packages out of the
primary distribution, then there will be a benefit from formalizing the
distribution of those packages via a Non-US mirror system.
Action Items
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1) Designate a primary site for the Non-US packages (someone will need
to maintain this site, which will probably take a few hours per week)
2) Setup the primary site with ccrypt, gnupg, and perhaps a few other
packages. Get upset working on a cron job to create the setup.ini file.
3) Start enrolling mirrors for the Non-US primary site. Obviously,
these sites must be outside of the US.
4) Setup a well-known location to grab a list of Non-US mirrors. At
this point it may be worth adapting setup.exe to handle choosing a
General and Non-US mirror for installations; on the other hand, it may
not be worth it.
I am in the US, so I can't offer hosting for this. I could help with
questions about running upset (it is pretty straightforward). Any
volunteers for #1? If so, please start setting up your rsync, http, and
ftp access as soon as possible and start tinkering with upset.
Harold
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