Any alternate download sites for speakup ftp?
Sina Bahram
sbahram at nc.rr.com
Fri Feb 25 15:02:36 EST 2005
*whistle* ... I'll be back: let me go check on that ...
If 20 gigs isn't possible, and I'm not sure it's not: then what is the
priority?
I do hate asking that question: ... But, we will see what happens.
Take care,
Sina
-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 2:47 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Any alternate download sites for speakup ftp?
It's just under 20 gigs currently.
Sina Bahram writes:
> Hi Janina,
>
> So did I, but it's not a problem I don't think: we'll simply assign
> the propper amount of space ...
>
> Can you give me an idea of how much it is? Like 5 gigs, 10 gigs?
>
> Take care,
> Sina
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 1:38 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: Any alternate download sites for speakup ftp?
>
> My expectation is that we'll simply point public downloads against the
> mirrors, once we have them. This should alleviate the load on Bumpy.
>
> Please note that I'm talking about mirroring all of the various
> community contributed technology available at Speakup, not just the
> Fedora. I think you missed that.
>
> Kenny Hitt writes:
> > Hi. Since Bill is the maintainer for the speakup modified Fedora,
> > wouldn't it be better to rsync against his server? Considering the
> > slow transfers to and from bumpy, rsyncing against bumpy could get
> > the mirrors up to date much sooner.
> >
> > Kenny
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 01:23:10PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > > Hi, Sina:
> > >
> > > I don't think there's much to coordinate. That's the beauty of it.
> > >
> > > My advice is to simply run a weekly rsync via cron--something like:
> > >
> > > rsync -avtz --delete bumpy.braille.uwo.ca::ftp/speakup/disks/* \
> > > [mirror.directory]
> > >
> > > The only refinement I can think of that would probably be helpful
> > > is to close the directory before doing the rsync to insure that no
> > > files are locked by someone's download while the rsync is in
> > > process. I confess I don't know if this is really an issue, but
> > > I'd want to make sure that it isn't--or just deal with it, perhaps
> > > by chmod the tree against reads for the duration.
> >
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>
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>
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janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org
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