Re: What is CPAN? (was: Re: Hoogle for Ocaml)

[Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net>]

On 03-12-2009, rixed@happyleptic.org <rixed@happyleptic.org> wrote:
>> > (1) A network of redundant mirrors which means you can always get the
>> > tarball you need, even when the original site is down:
>
> If I understand correctly, GODI site does not store any of the source
> tarballs, but the makefiles download the sources directly from their
> respective home, does it ? Can't we use the MASTER_SITE_BACKUP make
> variables to have one or several backup sites ?
>
> If it's usefull I can try to setup a server to download every possible
> source tarballs and serve as such a site backup.
>
> But would it be usefull ?
>

Yes of course. You can use ocamlcore.org website to do that. I have
already a proof of concept using "uscan" + Debian watch file, to scan
for new upstream on a weekly basis.

Send me a private mail, if you want to proceed.

Once the website is setup, we can use "rsync" to propagate it
(ssh.ocamlcore.org has rsync installed).

Everything is ready on *.ocamlcore.org, we just need some volunteer to
do the work.

Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall