Setup mirrors

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-03-10 14:44, david wrote:
> At 01:35 PM 3/10/2020, you wrote:
>> On 2020-03-09 17:11, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> > Greetings, Robert McBroom!
>> >
>> >> On 3/8/20 11:14 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> >>> Greetings, Ray Sabee!
>> >>>
>> >>>> As an enthusiastic user of your software for many years, we would like to do
>> >>>> something in return.
>> >>>> We are very fond of the open source model and we would like to contribute to
>> >>>> this great project.
>> >>>> We have a lot of servers and per request on your website, we would like to
>> >>>> make one of more servers available for mirroring the packages.
>> >>>> I would love to know how we can set this up and it would be great if you can
>> >>>> provide me with some sort of manual or wiki page.
>> >>> Did you search the most obvious place for information?
>> >>> https://cygwin.com/mirrors.html
>> >>>
>> >> That is the list of mirrors not a howto on becoming a mirror
>> >
>> > The text was there prior to recent website downtime.
>> > Since then, a number of things gone wrong, including mailing list signature.
>>
>> Now back to normal:
>>
>>         https://cygwin.com/mirrors.html#mirroradmin

> Gosh, I detect no change in the information.  The advice on how to set up a
> mirror is:
> 
> Please do not send questions asking how to set up a mirror. We don't provide
> technical support for setting up mirrors. Sorry.
> 
> I fear the original mail is still unanswered, unless I'm missing something
> obvious.  The page advertises:
> Last updated: 2020-03-10 18:31 UTC; Mirror size: 152G

If you don't see a big box below that with a large reddish headline reading:

	Mirror Administrators: Read This!
	...

you need to clear any cached pages for the site or your browser.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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