Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: Git on savannah

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 04:48:10PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
>     Essentially, I'd like to mirror the download areas, that is
>     http://dl.sv.gnu.org/releases/ . It currently amounts to 5GB.
> 
> Ok.  Can we provide rsync access?

Like:
  rsync dl.sv.gnu.org::releases
? :)

>     I was wondering how/whether Savannah could in the long term use the
>     GNU mirrors for the non-GNU areas
> 
> We could write the GNU mirrors (the ones we have contacts for) and see
> if they are interested.
> 
>     with a simple load-balancing system based on Geo::IP (I already sent
>     you similar code a couple months ago
> 
> I haven't announced it yet, but after much discussion Randy Kobes at the
> U. of Winnipeg has set up http://ftpmirror.gnu.org to autoredirect to a
> "nearby" ftp mirror, based on the originating IP address and using
> mirmon to try to avoid down/dead mirrors.  (There is also
> http://mirror.ctan.org for TeX.)  I imagine he'd be happy to do the same
> for nongnu once we get a batch of mirrors signed up.
> 
> Might be a couple days, but I'll cc you when I write to the people I
> know.

Cool.

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Sylvain