Hi, Johannes!
Johannes Winkelmann wrote: You have to trigger updates when a port is updated, and remove unnecessary files after a while (to avoid full HDDs; depending on the quality it's either really easy, or really hard to determine when to remove a file).
I don't necessarily see the necessity to trigger every update. A rsync once a day should be sufficient, when traffic is low. Do you expect problems due to concurrent access to the (master or slave) ports tree? How do other mirrors solve those problems? Pack each port to an archive?
Once this setup stands, it's probably little work keeping it up, however someone has to initially write and test these things. I've done some preliminary testing for the triggering, however stopped due to lack of time and need.
Hmm... But time squeezes all men under it's foot like a bug. Did you publish your approach somewhere?
[...] Sounds good; what does "as long as there is free traffic" mean here?
That only depends on the bucks you pay. -> not decided yet in my case. 10GB HDD and 750GB Traffic for EUR 10.-/Month? on a VServer? If HDD is a problem, for EUR20.-/Month you get a nice dedicated one. Some offers? :-) Well, what's crux.nu's Size at Kalmar NDC AB? What traffic do you have there?
But what about an automated ports checker, who polls the dl servers every day once and sees if the port would build successfully? If no -> mail to the mailing list....
Good idea :-) Report from today: http://lists.crux.nu/pipermail/crux-devel/2006-August/001912.html
Summary URL http://crux.nu/files/check_urls.html
According to that, the windowmaker problem is to be expected, the gtk isn't there... the tetex server for some reason rejects our requests, but works fine.
Here we are... I'm going to subscribe to crux-devel, too. I guess you beat me when I ask you why the problems are not fixed since days? ;-) Greets, Clemens Koller _______________________________ R&D Imaging Devices Anagramm GmbH Rupert-Mayer-Str. 45/1 81379 Muenchen Germany http://www.anagramm.de Phone: +49-89-741518-50 Fax: +49-89-741518-19