Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: us.kernel.org mirroring inconsistency | Date | Tue, 5 Jan 1999 16:40:44 -0800 (PST) |
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> > I believe this. I have been encouraging the official mirrors to use > > rsync rather than FTP, which tends to be more resistant to these > > kinds of problems. > > The package I use to do the mirroring is actually called "mirror" and > is a set of PERL scripts...
Yes, it uses FTP and has a set of a known problems.
> >> Incidentally, the SunSITE-UK mirror carries all files in the > >> mirrored directories, but it appears that ftp.kernel.org isn't > >> that consistant about the compressor it uses. As an example, > >> whilst it has both .gz and .bz2 versions of many of the kernels, a > >> large number of the 0.xx kernels are only provided in .Z format. > > > That is because gzip wasn't around back then. ftp.kernel.org > > doesn't use any compressor per se... > > That's what gets me - 0.01 is provided in gz and bz2 format, as is > 0.12, but the rest of the 0.xx series are mainly only provided in .Z > format...
Because the 0.01 tarball isn't original.
> > ...although there is a script around which converts .gz -> .bz2 > > automagically. .Z files aren't seen by this script. > > Perhaps they should be added - after all, gunzip handles .Z as well as > .gz archives...
Not enough benefit, I don't think.
-hpa
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