[TriLUG] Question for ibiblio people

[Don Sizemore]

  Hi Tanner,

  Paul is correct:  Mandrake calls the shots and we do what they want.

  We're on rsync.mandrakesoft.com's access list, and per their 
instructions we run four separate rsync scripts every few hours.
I'm sorry the directory structure keeps changing, but it's not us.


|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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  Thanks,
  Donald                                          ibiblio.org
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