Re: Some download statistics

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Magnus Hagander wrote:

>>>>> Frankly, I'd suggest dropping the splits. Thoughts?
>>>
>>>> I also found the split sources + a non-split sources version to be
>>>> confusing. As you, I think that splitting should be dropped.
>>>
>>> Perhaps the confusion issue could be addressed by keeping the split
>>> sources in a separate subdirectory:
>>>
>>> pub/source/v.8.0.1/
>>> postgresql-8.0.1.tar.bz2
>>> postgresql-8.0.1.tar.bz2.md5
>>> postgresql-8.0.1.tar.gz
>>> postgresql-8.0.1.tar.gz.md5
>>> split-tarballs/
>>> postgresql-base-8.0.1.tar.bz2
>>> postgresql-base-8.0.1.tar.bz2.md5
>>> etc...
>>
>> That sounds like a reasonable compromise ... I could do that
>> right away,
>> if nobody is in disagreement ... ?
>
> Seems reasonable to me.
>
>
>>> I suspect the demand for the split tarballs is mighty low nowaways,
>>> but it's probably not zero yet.
>>
>> Considering that every new FreeBSD install uses them
>> exclusively, I don't
>> expect it to drop to zero in the near future ..
>
> Do they pull fromt eh pg mirrors, or from their own? I realise they
> still need it, of course, but it'd be interesting to know.

MASTER_SITES= ${MASTER_SITE_PGSQL}

which expands to:

MASTER_SITE_PGSQL+= \
ftp://ftp3.us.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp8.us.postgresql.org/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp9.us.postgresql.org/pub/mirrors/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp10.us.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp13.us.postgresql.org/mirror/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
${MASTER_SITE_RINGSERVER:S,%SUBDIR%,misc/db/postgresql/&,} \
ftp://ftp.au.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp.at.postgresql.org/db/www.postgresql.org/pub/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp.be.postgresql.org/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp.ba.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp.br.postgresql.org/pub/PostgreSQL/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp3.ca.postgresql.org/pub/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp2.cr.postgresql.org/pub/Unix/postgres/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp.cz.postgresql.org/pub/ftp.postgresql.org/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp2.cz.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp.ee.postgresql.org/mirrors/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp.fr.postgresql.org/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp2.fr.postgresql.org/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp.de.postgresql.org/mirror/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp2.de.postgresql.org/pub/comp/os/unix/database/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp3.de.postgresql.org/pub/Mirrors/ftp.postgresql.org/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp4.de.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp.gr.postgresql.org/pub/databases/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp.hk.postgresql.org/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp2.is.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp.ie.postgresql.org/mirrors/ftp.postgresql.org/pub/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp2.it.postgresql.org/mirrors/postgres/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp.kr.postgresql.org/mirror/database/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp.lv.postgresql.org/pub/software/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp.eu.postgresql.org/pub/unix/db/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp2.nl.postgresql.org/mirror/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp4.nl.postgresql.org/postgresql.zeelandnet.nl/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp.no.postgresql.org/pub/databases/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp6.pl.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp7.pl.postgresql.org/pub/mirror/ftp.postgresql.org/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp.pt.postgresql.org/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp6.ro.postgresql.org/pub/mirrors/ftp.postgresql.org/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp.ru.postgresql.org/pub/unix/database/pgsql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp2.ru.postgresql.org/pub/databases/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp3.ru.postgresql.org/pub/mirror/postgresql/pub/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp5.es.postgresql.org/mirror/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp.se.postgresql.org/pub/databases/relational/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp2.ch.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp.tw.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp3.tw.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp.tr.postgresql.org/pub/SQL/postgresql/%SUBDIR%/ \
ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/%SUBDIR%/

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