[arch-dev-public] Arch mirrors

[Roman Kyrylych]

2007/9/18, eliott <eliott at cactuswax.net>:
> On 9/18/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2007/9/17, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
> > > On 9/17/07, Simo Leone <simo at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:58:37AM -0700, eliott wrote:
> > > > > There is a FS ticket for part of this thread:
> > > > > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7006
> > > > >
> > > > > I support changing the link on the downloads page to reference the wiki.
> > > > > This would, however, allow end users to modify the mirror page thus
> > > > > changing the mirror list in a way that may be seen as more 'official'.
> > > > >
> > > > > We could perhaps lock the mirrors page, but that semi-defeats the
> > > > > purpose of the change control suggestion.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any thoughts or feedback of a high caliber?
> > > > >
> > > > I'd rather have the static mirror page for the reasons you mentioned. It
> > > > seems kind of... open... to have a wikified mirror page.
> > > >
> > > > If someone wants to add a mirror, it's not that hard to mail one of us
> > > > and ask to have it added/removed/whatever, which amounts to the same
> > > > thing as a locked wiki page, except the non-wiki page is prettier 8)
> > > >
> > > > -S
> > >
> > > Can we get http/ftp/rsync availability at least on the offical page? A
> > > nice table would do the trick:
> > >
> > > /***************|***********|**************|*************\
> > > mirror      | http   | ftp | rsync \
> > > foo.bar.com | <a href="http://...">HTTP</a> | <a href="ftp://.."> ........
> > >
> > > You get the point. It shouldn't be very hard to write a little script
> > > that tests the current list of mirrors we have for availability of
> > > these three services.
> >
> > Well, this info is already provided on our wiki, so if someone will
> > modify /download/ page manually then this can be entered as well.
> > We cannot use pacman mirrorlist directly, because not all mirrors have
> > isos on them (or if there will be a script for checking ftp/http/rsync
> > - it should check for latest isos too).
>
> I will certainly update the /download/ page, but we first need to
> decide which mirrors to include on the download page (are they all
> valid and dev authorized?).

They are 99% the same as in pacman.d/* (just a little more up-to-date).
But not all of them have iso/ directory (or some have very outdated
isos) - this is noted on wiki page right after mirror's URL.

>
> Then I need somebody to put the mirrors into a reasonable format for
> me. I don't have the time to get all the data in a usable format AND
> update the page. If somebody can do the legwork for me, I will
> certainly do the backend change.
>
> A nice format would be..
>
> ftp_url  |  http_url  |  Country
>

I'll try to find time for this. Probably even tomorrow.

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)