Mirroring xorg and rsync

[Ely Levy]

I was talking about release mirroring especially, it's faster to download
all the source tars of diffrent releases from close by.

Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel



On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Daniel Stone wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:28:48PM +0200, Ely Levy wrote:
> > I wanted to create an israeli mirror of xorg,
> > How is the mirroring proccess go?Should I mirror it directly from x.org
> > or is there some tier stracture?
> > And most importantly is there a rsync mirror of xorg?
>
> A CVS mirror?  I believe we might have cvsup, but right now, the only
> CVS mirrors I know of are private ones (I run rsync over SSH to get a
> local copy, for one).
>
> I think fd.o has pretty significant bandwidth, and we'd probably only
> want anoncvs mirrors if there were significant issues, because they can
> often become desynced, run out of space, etc, etc, and they are rather
> problematic to manage properly.
>
> > (thought: what about web mirrors of x.org?)
>
> Since that lives on Open Group machines rather than fd.o, it's out of my
> hands, I'm afraid.
>
> --
> Daniel Stone                                            <daniel at freedesktop.org>
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