Subject: Re: CVSup collections for a NetBSD CVS tree
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Tom Javen <tomja@InnoTrac.fi>
List: current-users
Date: 05/02/1999 16:05:13
> 
> No, Greg. You are forcing official support of CVSup down *our*
> throats.  You are demanding that we take on the burden of porting and
> maintaining m3 to all our ports. Please dont lie to us
> 
> >There are lots of of unofficial mirrors
> >of ftp.NetBSD.org (and ftp.*.netbsd.org), yet I'll bet those *official*
> >sites get the majority of requests, and the reason is that people want
> >to get an "official" copy, both for the supposed integrity, and also so
> >that their request shows up in an official log, maybe so that they can
> >contribute to statistics showing how widely used NetBSD is.  
> 
> Now explain how those `official' mirrors are supposed to provide CVSup
> access.  You do remember that some of them are sparcs and whatnot
> running NetBSD, dont you?
> 
There are 29 ftp , 2 afs, 1 nfs, 8 sup mirrors.
Not all of them are running NetBSD.

I don't think there is a requirement to run NetBSD for mirroring ?