Re: Creating a PEAR mirror

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Christian Weiske <cweiske@cweiske.de> wrote: >> d) Regardless of the answer to (c), is there any demand for a second >> public European mirror (there is already Christian's in Germany)? If >> so, is there any estimate of what that would involve in terms of >> resources (bandwidth)? > The mirrors (mine at least) are rarely used. So currently, bandwidth > requirements are pretty low, except the bandwidth required for syncing. > Having mirrors is good anyway, so I would not say no. That's mostly because we don't include a Geo detection - people have to explicitly say, "I want to use the DE mirror" I've been pondering if we could make say "a fastest mirror" solution - not sure how yum does it - official mirror list file and does some geo magic, btw it´s a addon to yum - was thinking about something similar for pear, opt in solution. That should make our mirrors more widely used tho I can´t say we´re being hammered enough on the actual pear server to think of it as we need more resources, I see mirrors atm as something to make the response time for end users. > However, first we have to solve some problems including how to make > sure mirrors are white ones, e.g. > > http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/Linux-package-management-systems-not-completely-secure--/111103 yeah security was one of the reasons why we haven't been spreading the mirror idea. thanks for the link, I'll have a peak at it. - Helgi