Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] address@hidden: nongnu mirror]

[Sylvain Beucler]

> This could be changed to a mirror listing page.

I started doing so.

-- 
Sylvain

On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:32:58PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> Thanks! :)
> 
> The empty page comes from:
> 
> $ rsync dl.sv.gnu.org::releases/index.html
> -rw-r--r--           0 2004/08/31 20:26:08 index.html
> 
> because at the time, sysadmin@ believed listing 2500+ projects would
> be resource-consuming for both Savannah and the client.
> 
> 
> This could be changed to a mirror listing page.
> 
> -- 
> Sylvain
> 
> On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 12:47:57PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> > A volunteer kindly set up a mirror (only one so far), but he noted that
> > http://dl.sv.gnu.org/releases/ comes up empty now.  (As does his page,
> > which may or may not be related.)
> > 
> > ?
> > 
> > 
> > Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 03:32:36 -0600 (MDT)
> > From: address@hidden
> > To: "Karl Berry" <address@hidden>
> > Subject: nongnu mirror
> > 
> > Hi Karl,
> > I estabilished an http mirror via rsync, updated daily with a cron job,
> > located
> > in Utah (US), available at the URL "http://nongnu.bigsearcher.com";.
> > 
> > I've just checked the url: dl.sv.gnu.org/releases/ but I can't find 
> > anything.
> > 
> > Please add this mirror to the list of available mirror location.
> > Best regards,
> > Andrew
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > Dear GNU mirror admins,
> > >
> > > [Sorry for mass BCC, trying to avoid spreading autoreplies to everyone.]
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help with mirroring ftp.gnu.org.  Now we are also
> > > looking for sites to mirror releases of the "nongnu" projects hosted on
> > > savannah, and thought you might be able to help.
> > >
> > > Unlike with ftp.gnu.org, you can rsync directly from savannah:
> > >   rsync://dl.sv.gnu.org/releases/
> > > It currently amounts to about 5gb.
> > >
> > > If you would like to do this, please let us know your url.
> > > (If not, no problem, of course.)
> > >
> > > Thanks for your time and help,
> > > Karl
> > >
> > 
> >