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Bandwidth requirements
by Polarian 14 Dec '22

14 Dec '22

Hello, I currently have my own mirror available at https://archmirror.polarian.dev which I use for my hosting, as I have many VM's and LXC containers which other people also use therefore having a complete mirror is useful to allow for high speed package installation, and prevents load on other mirrors constantly updating multiple identical packages across all containers and virtual machines. I am limited by bandwidth however, as it is a home server, with down of 80mbps and 20mbps up on average, and on the archwiki page it is highly unadviced to contribute to the mirrors if you do not have at least 100mbps upload. I would still like to contribute, but not sure how. Polarian

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sync and check problems
by Quantum Mirror 02 Dec '22

02 Dec '22

Dear Arch Linux infra team, Please get in contact with archimonde.ts.si Tier 1 mirror's admin(s) and let them know that their mirror is out of sync about 5-6 days. It would be wise at least to check the Tier 1 mirrors from your side to be up to date, because it causes a bunch of Tier 2 and other downstream mirrors out of sync also. The other thing: please check your "Germany 49.12.124.107" scan server in your pool, because it seems unstable and shows "Name or service not known" errors randomly, what causes "completion %" , false+ alerts and other problems. Thank You for Your understanding and help in advance! Cheers, Peter

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Feedback Requested in providing debug pkg repo
by Rolf Hopkins 29 Sep '22

29 Sep '22

Hi All, Our company provides tier1 mirrors for several Linux distributions[1] including Arch Linux. With the announcement[2] from Arch back in February that they have made debug packages available to the community, we are considering to provide these debug packages on our mirror as well. There are two options we are considering: 1. Expand our current Arch mirror to include the debug packages. This is the simpler option to implement but requires approximately an additional 70GB of space. This will affect downstream mirrors in that they too would need to accommodate for the additional space. 2. Add an additional Arch mirror that includes the debug packages. I am especially interested in hearing from downstream mirrors who sync from our mirror. [1] https://pkg.adfinis.com/ [2] https://archlinux.org/news/debug-packages-and-debuginfod/ Regards, Rolf

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Broken mirrors
by Johannes Findeisen 06 Sep '22

06 Sep '22

Hello, the following two mirrors seem not to provide any arch content anymore: ratenzahlung.de (no content) https://www.ratenzahlung.de/mirror/archlinux/ zachlge.org (403 Forbidden) http://arch.mirror.zachlge.org/ Hope this helps... ;) Regards, Johannes P.S.: Sorry for the first mail from other account. I missed to set the right sender...

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Mirror shutdown
by David BERARD 06 Sep '22

06 Sep '22

Hello, Unfortunately, I have to turn off the archlinux.polymorf.fr mirror which is currently acting as a Tier 1 mirror. Can you please remove the server from the mirror system ? Is there anything I have to do on my side ? Regards,

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Mirror kyberorg.fi new server and changes
by Aleksandr Muravja 26 Aug '22

26 Aug '22

Hello, Today I’ve got new server dedicated to host mirrors. It has both ipv4 and ipv6. I plan to switch DNS record to new server at Monday 29.8.2022 (7.00UTC/10.00 EEST). I except 5-10 downtime for HTTPS endpoint (to get SSL certificates). Hostname remains the same: arch.kyberorg.fi RSync will be available: rsync://rsync.kyberorg.fi/arch Unfortunately, rsync will be IPv4 only (I still cannot get it work at IPv6). Also I changed Tier1 server to sync from. New server syncs from neuf.no Feel free to contact me. — Best wishes, Aleksandr Muravja aka Kyberorg

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Please update mirror.guillaumea.fr authorized IP
by Guillaume Andre 16 Aug '22

16 Aug '22

Hello, I am the owner of mirror.guillaumea.fr My IPv4 address has changed and I cannot sync from archlinux.org anymore. Please update to 121.7.171.81 Thank you Guillaume -- mail(a)guillaumea.fr

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arch.kyberorg.fi is up and running
by Aleksandr Muravja 02 Aug '22

02 Aug '22

Mirror Maintenance is over and the mirror is up and running.

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[Outage] arch.kyberorg.fi will be off for 2 hours
by Aleksandr Muravja 02 Aug '22

02 Aug '22

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Not mirroring sources: a GPL violation?
by Imre Jonk 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

Hi all, I'm not sure if this is the right place to address this issue; as far as I'm aware, there is no Arch mailing list or forum for legal matters. What I'd like to discuss is the (unnecessary?) legal risk that mirror operators are exposed to when they don't mirror source packages. I believe that most mirrors are violating article 6 of the GPLv3 (or article 3 of the GPLv2). My reasoning goes like this: - The Arch repositories contain some software that is released under the GPL (or GPL-like) license. - Anyone distributing GPL-licensed software in compiled form is obligated to distribute the source code as well, either alongside the compiled software or, when accompanied by a 'written offer', on request at a later date. (there are a few more ways under the GPLv3 but I don't think they apply) - Few mirrors provide source packages, and as far as I'm aware, there are no mirrors out there that accompany the compiled software with a written offer. - Ergo, most Arch mirrors are violating the GPL. Note that I am by no means a GPL expert. Maybe I'm making some false assumption or other error in my reasoning, in which case, please feel free to point that out. I noticed that the ArchWiki considers mirroring sources optional [1], making it seem like the author of that article encourages violating the GPL in order to save some bandwidth and a bit of disk space. That article also mentions that the size of the 'sources' component was about 50 GiB in March 2018. I can't imagine it being significantly larger by now. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:NewMirrors#Mirror_size I've been looking for old discussions on this topic and only found a short mention in this forum thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1778318#p1778318 I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. Imre

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