2007/4/12, Mateusz Jędrasik <m.jedrasik@gmail.com>:
I was also wondering about pacman mirrors since there isn't for example a reasonable polish mirror available currently - they're both very out of date/sync.
How much traffic/bandwidth usage does such a mirror generate, on average?
I could maybe be able to set up such a mirror locally in Poland, or help with organizing one; Does archlinux community provide with server equipment for dedicated mirrors in such case, or would that be necesary to set up on the mirror side, and if so, how big in MB/GB would such a mirror then be?
I don't know about bandwidth, though I have small mirror here. If you want to setup mirror you should either rsync it from other official mirrors or (to get new versions faster) rsync from archlinux.org, but in that case you should contact devs (write a message to arch ML or Support Request on bugtracker) so they'll allow rsync access from your IP. As for size - complete mirror takes 12GB. [rk@server ~]$ show_mirror 12G /mnt/storage1/mirror 2,1G /mnt/storage1/mirror/community/os/i686 1,2G /mnt/storage1/mirror/community/os/x86_64 539M /mnt/storage1/mirror/current/os/i686 513M /mnt/storage1/mirror/current/os/x86_64 3,8G /mnt/storage1/mirror/extra/os/i686 3,5G /mnt/storage1/mirror/extra/os/x86_64 191M /mnt/storage1/mirror/testing/os/i686 840K /mnt/storage1/mirror/testing/os/x86_64 136M /mnt/storage1/mirror/unstable/os/i686 140M /mnt/storage1/mirror/unstable/os/x86_64
PS. Btw the upgrade broke gwenview, i reckon it's not really the place for such info, just tossing my two cents in :) It's the lib exiv2 which seems responsible.
Reported in bugtracker and assigned to maintainer already. ;-) -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)