Re: FTP Mirrors (was Re: Rewriting the website)

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 09:46:54PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > ftp is beign mirrored to 103 sites ...
>
> Would it be possible to make the FTP mirrors all use the same directory
> structure? Currently, to pick random examples, we have
>
> ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/v7.4.1
> ftp://ftp.it.postgresql.org/mirror/postgresql/v7.4.1
> ftp://ftp.fr.postgresql.org/v7.4.1
> ftp://ftp.au.postgresql.org/...? I can't even find it right away.

I think the problem is that the people in charge don't always care about
that. For a very stupid example, see ftp.cl.postgresql.org where
Postgres is located in the /pub/GNU dir, and it is the only subdir of
it. Isn't that silly?

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