www/server mirror.html

[Karl Berry]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Karl Berry <karl>       09/02/02 00:45:35

Modified files:
        server         : mirror.html 

Log message:
        sig config

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/mirror.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.64&r2=1.65

Patches:
Index: mirror.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/server/mirror.html,v
retrieving revision 1.64
retrieving revision 1.65
diff -u -b -r1.64 -r1.65
--- mirror.html 18 Dec 2008 22:47:48 -0000      1.64
+++ mirror.html 2 Feb 2009 00:45:27 -0000       1.65
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
 <p>Due to resource and security concerns, we no longer offer direct
 rsync or FTP service to update mirrors. If you would like to use rsync
 (which is advisable) or FTP, there several reliable third party sites,
-that offer access to the material on ftp.gnu.org. They update directly
-from us on a regular basis and you may access them with (via rsync):</p>
+that offer access to the material on ftp.gnu.org. They update from us on
+a regular basis and you may access them with (via rsync):</p>
 
 <ul>
   <li><tt>rsync://mirrors.ibiblio.org::gnuftp/</tt> (USA)</li>
@@ -47,6 +47,19 @@
 <p>If your site can also offer general rsync access, please <a
 href="mailto:address@hidden";>contact us</a>.</p>
 
+<p>If your mirror will be available via http (which is very useful, so
+please do if you can), please set up your configuration to avoid sending
+<tt>.gz.sig</tt> files (signatures of compressed files, of which there
+are many on our servers) as gzip-encoded.  For Apache, this would mean:
+
+<pre>
+AddType application/pgp-signature .sig
+# make sure .sig files are _not_ sent with "Content-Encoding: gzip".
+<Files *.gz.sig>
+  RemoveEncoding .gz
+</Files>
+</pre>
+
 
 <h3><a id="Ibiblio" name="Ibiblio">Tips on updating from Ibiblio</a></h3>
 
@@ -61,8 +74,7 @@
   mailman list page: <a
   href="http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ibiblio-mirrors";>
   http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ibiblio-mirrors</a></li>
-
-  <li>Specific questions and problem reports can be sent to:
+  Specific questions and problem reports can be sent to:
   help-at-ibiblio-dot-org.</li>
 </ul>
 
@@ -87,6 +99,24 @@
 </ul>
 
 
+<a name="nongnu"></a>
+<h3>Mirroring nongnu releases from Savannah</h3>
+
+<p>We are looking for volunteers to mirror releases of the nongnu
+projects hosted at <a
+href="http://savannah.nongnu.org";>savannah.nongnu.org</a>.  The total is
+currently around 12gb.  To do this, we strongly suggest you retrieve and
+update the files using
+<tt>rsync&nbsp;-aHS&nbsp;--delete-excluded&nbsp;rsync://dl.sv.gnu.org/releases/</tt>&nbsp;<i>/yourdir</i>
+<br />The options ensure that it is an exact mirror.  (There will probably
+be some permission errors; just ignore them.  They are due to choices or
+mistakes by savannah project maintainers.)</p>
+
+<p>If you are able to help with this, please <a
+href="mailto:address@hidden";>email us</a> with the url to your
+mirror so we can add you to the <a
+href="http://dl.sv.gnu.org/releases/00_MIRRORS.html";>list</a>.  Thanks!</p>
+
 
 <h3>Mirroring the GNU web server</h3>
 
@@ -110,25 +140,6 @@
 
 <p>Thanks to Juri Hoerner for providing this Apache information.</p>
 
-<a name="nongnu"></a>
-<h3>Mirroring nongnu releases from Savannah</h3>
-
-<p>We are looking for volunteers to mirror releases of the nongnu
-projects hosted at <a
-href="http://savannah.nongnu.org";>savannah.nongnu.org</a>.  The total is
-currently around 12gb.  To do this, we strongly suggest you retrieve and
-update the files using
-<tt>rsync&nbsp;-aHS&nbsp;--delete-excluded&nbsp;rsync://dl.sv.gnu.org/releases/</tt>&nbsp;<i>/yourdir</i>
-<br />The options ensure that it is an exact mirror.  (There will probably
-be some permission errors; just ignore them.  They are due to choices or
-mistakes by savannah project maintainers.)</p>
-
-<p>If you are able to help with this, please <a
-href="mailto:address@hidden";>email us</a> with the url to your
-mirror so we can add you to the <a
-href="http://dl.sv.gnu.org/releases/00_MIRRORS.html";>list</a>.  Thanks!</p>
-
-
 <!-- If needed, change the copyright block at the bottom. In general, -->
 <!-- all pages on the GNU web server should have the section about    -->
 <!-- verbatim copying.  Please do NOT remove this without talking     -->
@@ -166,7 +177,7 @@
 
 <p>Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2008/12/18 22:47:48 $
+$Date: 2009/02/02 00:45:27 $
 <!-- timestamp end --></p>
 </div>