[TriLUG] Question for ibiblio people

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 21:43, Paul Jones wrote:
> mandrake does the names we only mirror on their specs -- unless i'm 
> mistaken

Paul,

Where do you mirror from?  I just looked at mandrake's two 
primary mirrors and they are named nothing like what is
on distro.ibiblio.org.  This is the directory structure
on the two primary mirrors:

.../[Mm]andrake
   8.1/
   current -> 8.1
   iso/
   ls-lR.gz
   updates/

.../[Mm]andrake-devel
   contrib/
   cooker/
   cookfire/
   ls-lR
   mandrakefreq/
   projects/
   unsupported/

.../[Mm]andrake-iso
   {alpha/}
   i586/   
   {ia64/}
   ls-lR   
   ppc/    
   sparc/

One of the mirrors uses upper case for the base directory names and
the other uses lower case.  The directories in {} are in the primary
mirror and not the secondary mirror.

Mandrake's web page lists the ibiblio mirror as
ftp://jungle.metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrake/8.1/i586/

But, I just looked closer at ibiblio and noticed the situation is worse
than I thought.  The above link on ibiblio would be

ftp://jungle.metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-ftp/Mandrake-i586/8.1/i586

but the i586 directory is a symbolic link to ../../Mandrake/8.1/i586
which doesn't even exist! The same thing is true for ibiblio's
cooker packages.  They are symbolic links to directories that do *not*
exist.  I think that's pretty indicitive of a problem. :-/

BTW, a month or two ago, ibiblio split up what had been just
like the three directories above to be

.../mandrake-ftp/ 
  [contained 8.1 and cooker]
  
.../mandrake-iso/
  [contained the iso images]

But, wait a second!!!  I just looked again, and now, in the
same directory as mandrake-ftp and mandrake-iso there is
a directory called mandrake and everything is there?!?
WTF?  So, the Mandrake url *is* correct, but what was the
deal with the other directories that have been in effect
for the last couple of months?  My head is spinning here.
*Please* shed some light on this...

Thanks,
Tanner
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