2007/9/18, eliott <eliott@cactuswax.net>:
On 9/18/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
2007/9/17, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>:
On 9/17/07, Simo Leone <simo@archlinux.org> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:58:37AM -0700, eliott wrote:
There is a FS ticket for part of this thread: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7006
I support changing the link on the downloads page to reference the wiki. This would, however, allow end users to modify the mirror page thus changing the mirror list in a way that may be seen as more 'official'.
We could perhaps lock the mirrors page, but that semi-defeats the purpose of the change control suggestion.
Any thoughts or feedback of a high caliber?
I'd rather have the static mirror page for the reasons you mentioned. It seems kind of... open... to have a wikified mirror page.
If someone wants to add a mirror, it's not that hard to mail one of us and ask to have it added/removed/whatever, which amounts to the same thing as a locked wiki page, except the non-wiki page is prettier 8)
-S
Can we get http/ftp/rsync availability at least on the offical page? A nice table would do the trick:
/***************|***********|**************|*************\ mirror | http | ftp | rsync \ foo.bar.com | <a href="http://...">HTTP</a> | <a href="ftp://.."> ........
You get the point. It shouldn't be very hard to write a little script that tests the current list of mirrors we have for availability of these three services.
Well, this info is already provided on our wiki, so if someone will modify /download/ page manually then this can be entered as well. We cannot use pacman mirrorlist directly, because not all mirrors have isos on them (or if there will be a script for checking ftp/http/rsync - it should check for latest isos too).
I will certainly update the /download/ page, but we first need to decide which mirrors to include on the download page (are they all valid and dev authorized?).
They are 99% the same as in pacman.d/* (just a little more up-to-date). But not all of them have iso/ directory (or some have very outdated isos) - this is noted on wiki page right after mirror's URL.
Then I need somebody to put the mirrors into a reasonable format for me. I don't have the time to get all the data in a usable format AND update the page. If somebody can do the legwork for me, I will certainly do the backend change.
A nice format would be..
ftp_url | http_url | Country
I'll try to find time for this. Probably even tomorrow. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)