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Re: Becoming a mirror of Cygwin
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 03:43:37PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote on 08 July 2008 15:35:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 09:47:09AM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>>> * mirror@fpt (Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:16:56 +0700)
>>>> I'm a system administrator of FPT Telecom - one of the largest ISP in
>>>> Vietnam. I'm being responsible for becoming a mirror of community sites.
>>>>
>>>> I have a question:
>>>> How does our site become a mirror of Cygwin?
>>>
>>> "Contact sourcemaster at this site [...]. sourcemaster is also the place
>>> to send requests to be added to this list."
>>> http://www.cygwin.com/mirrors.html
>>
>>That's right.
>>
>>Remember that sending email there just will get you added to the list.
>>We (i.e., I) don't advise you in *how* to do this but setting up an
>>rsync mirror should be fairly straightforward.
>
>... and one way of doing it is documented (in the section "Creating a
>local Cygwin mirror with rsync") at
>
>http://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/package-server.html
Hmm. That page tells people to rsync from a mirror. I don't see any
reason to do that when you can use rsync from cygwin.com directly.
Was that just to save on sourceware.org bandwidth? If so, I don't think
this is an issue anymore.
cgf
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