Subject: uploading to m68k

From: Juergen Menden <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 13:29:54 +0200 (MET DST)

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[CC to Guy Maor set!]

Hello all!
after about 2 1/2 months of an unprocessed incoming there are now
(as it seems) 3 seperate actions going on.
 - Michael Schmitz has a fairly good connection to master and has 
   volunteered to clear our incomming. unfortunately he can do
   this job only until the end of the month.
 - Guy Maor wrote an upload processing script which should be able
   to process uploads for every architecture. but i'm not sure how
   far this script is with multiarchitecture uploads. Guy, you have
   said you will write an how-to-upload document, but it seems that
   i have missed it, could you resend it to me/us?
 - Frank Neumann and Sven Rudolph are moving the m68k area back to
   europe, so that the incoming processing is easier to maintain
   for us.

hmm, i think we should coordinate the work a little bit... :-)))

for me, i would vote for the uploading script from Guy at least 
in the long run. So the question is how long will it take to get
the uploading automated for us. Guy? it seems that the script 
did already run on our incoming once?

up to then i would say that Michael is clearing our incoming on master,
and if it's going to the end of the month and the script isn't working
yet then we move the m68k uploading to dresden.

comments?
jjm

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From: "Frank Neumann" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 16:14:11 +0200 (MET DST)

Hi,

> [CC to Guy Maor set!]
[ditto]

> (as it seems) 3 seperate actions going on.

Well, bad/good luck or whatever. Different people with similar thoughts. :)

> hmm, i think we should coordinate the work a little bit... :-)))

Well, certainly. :-)

> did already run on our incoming once?

I think item 2) and 3) don't have to exclude each other - we might put
up a similar script (or even Guy's) in Dresden to assort files 
automatically (or at least semi-automatically) once it works ok.

Personally, I rather dislike having to upload to US as it's just too plain
slow for me from here (trying a traceroute - 15 hops, and I noticed that
often the only time I can connect to master at all is in the afternoon).
If there are no package maintainers from the US complaining heavily
now, I'd really vote for re-locating our "upload center" to Germany.

Of course, I'd agree to what most people agree (good old democracy :)

> yet then we move the m68k uploading to dresden.

I have just been given a temporary account in Dresden (which will be
made permanent in a few days), so theoretically we could already start 
uploads there right now (ok, give 2 days for me becoming comfortable in there).

Frank

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From: Juergen Menden <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 11:09:57 +0200 (MET DST)

> [ditto]
[still... :-)]

> slow for me from here 

i know. it took me 2 weeks to upload the emacs packages... :-(

on the other hand: having two different places where people
move files in the distribution has some drawbacks, esp. if 
files have to get moved from one section to another (as the
distribution maintainer decides, eg. think of the hkgerman 
package). 

if i understand some posts on debian-devel right there is an 
upload facility running on a host in the uk (chiark? was it
Ian Jackson who set it up?), which simply forwards uploaded
files to the incoming area on master. if the tu-dresden could
set up such a service, i think this would be a good compromise.

my $0.02,
jjm