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[arch-mirrors] Temporary downtime - mirror.kaminski.io
by Nash Kaminski 17 Feb '16

17 Feb '16

My mirror, mirror.kaminski.io, will be down for a few hours today due to electrical work occurring in the space in which it is hosted. Regards, Nash Kaminski -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail.

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[arch-mirrors] [Announcement] Restructuring the arch-mirrors list
by Florian Pritz 13 Feb '16

13 Feb '16

Hi, Some admins have told me that they are not interested in traffic regarding other mirrors. I tried to keep such traffic away from the mailing list, but I have the feeling that it would probably be better to simply split the list. I propose the following two lists: - arch-mirrors: List that mirror admins should subscribe to. This will only accept mails from Arch Linux staff and will only be used if we need to contact all mirror admins. - arch-mirrors-discussion: General discussion list. Our users might be subscribed here. Mirror admins can use it to send mail regarding downtime or user facing changes. They will either be whitelisted or can subscribe and disable receiving mail (it's in the mailman user settings). This should move approximately all of our current traffic on arch-mirrors to arch-mirrors-discussion, so mirror admins should get less boring mails. I am unsure if I should also split general discussion from downtime announcements, but it looks like there hardly was discussion in the past. Given I do not know who actually reads this list and what they would like to see here, any feedback (from mirror admins or users) is welcome. I plan to implement these changes next week or once the discussion is over. Florian

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[arch-mirrors] Issues when syncing from 23media.de
by Michael Hofer 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

Hi there I've just wanted to inform you that we encountered some issues today when syncing from the Tier 1 mirror rsync://mirror.23media.de/archlinux/. Many packages and links were outdated or even broken. Therefore we've switched over to use rsync://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/, which fixed the problems. Has anyone noticed simliar issues? Best regards Michael -- Adfinis SyGroup AG Michael Hofer, System Engineer Keltenstrasse 98 | CH-3018 Bern Tel. +41 31 550 31 11

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[arch-mirrors] pacman verify database
by Dennis Börm 06 Feb '16

06 Feb '16

Hi, i've setup a mirror this week. one sync today synced an incomplete state from a tier1 mirror. is there a tool/script to determine if a/my mirror is in a consistent state? greetings and a calm weekend Dennis

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[arch-mirrors] load distribution in mirrors (was: Restructuring the arch-mirrors list)
by Carlos Carvalho 05 Feb '16

05 Feb '16

Changed the topic because it's completely different. Distributing clients among mirrors depends on the repository architecture. If it's just a bunch of files it can be done on a file-by-file basis, as is done by several repositories. However when there are relations to be obeyed, such as package dependencies and versions, it cannot because a broken mirror may have only part of what's necessary. In other words, the repository must be consistent. This is the case for most linux distros. Having the package manager on the client choose the mirror is usually better, and it should have a list of known-good mirrors, which seems to be already the case. The list of mirrors could be a package that is always installed and updated. It can come configured with a general priority by country or continent pointing to the bigger and most reliable mirrors. The default can be overriden by the user or other criteria, such as specific software.

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Re: [arch-mirrors] [Announcement] Restructuring the arch-mirrors list
by robert johnson 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Hello Everyone Robert Johnson is deceased. He died on 8/1/2015. His wife, Constance Stallard Sent from Windows Mail From: Florian Pritz Sent: ‎Tuesday‎, ‎February‎ ‎02‎, ‎2016 ‎7‎:‎58‎ ‎AM To: Arch Linux Mirroring Discussion and Announcements On 01.02.2016 20:22, Luchesar V. ILIEV wrote: > Blame it on my FreeBSD past (and part present), but I actually prefer > the short generic name to be used for discussions (i.e. arch-mirrors@), > while the announcements-only list to be named accordingly (e.g. > arch-mirrors-announce@). This would perhaps also be more in line with > the general AL announcements list, arch-announce@. Good point. I'll do that. > Admittedly, three separate lists for an already quite a low traffic one > is an overkill, but on the other hand there would be a good separation > between the different types of messages with their different urgency. We don't care about the list count so I'll probably go with this. We really have 3 pretty distinct types of traffic here so we should just separate them properly. I did see Daniel's reply about only having one list, but I feel that we should have a list for discussion. We also definitively need a list for Arch Linux staff to reach all mirror admins so 3 lists seems like the best way to go. > _______________________________________________ > arch-mirrors mailing list > arch-mirrors(a)archlinux.org > https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-mirrors I'll also get rid of this footer because it is really annoying and none of our other lists have it. It also breaks DKIM signatures and I also think about dropping the subject prefix for this reason. That discussion will happen at a later date though. Florian _______________________________________________ arch-mirrors mailing list arch-mirrors(a)archlinux.org https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-mirrors

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[arch-mirrors] ipv6
by Webmaster Localmspdotorg 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Thanks for the reply - so if i disable ipv6 dns entirely (by removing cloudflare or other) will the system eventually stop testing for it? Thank you

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[arch-mirrors] localmsp dot org ipv6
by Webmaster Localmspdotorg 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hi, Not sure how or why the system started testing ipv6 on localmsp org arch mirror. I can resolve both, but never intended them to be tested (i get the ipv6 via cloudflare and may not always use them). It should work regardless - so I wonder if we can eithe r figure out why the us based testing host fails / maybe not resolving correctly? Or better yet, just disable ipv6 testing for this domain? Let me know if I can help troubleshoot. Thank you

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