[arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

[Ionut Biru]

On 03/09/2010 03:17 PM, Florian Pritz wrote:
> On 09.03.2010 02:20, keenerd wrote:
>>> On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 19:13:38 -0600, Dan McGee<dpmcgee at gmail.com>  wrote
>>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:09 PM, keenerd<keenerd at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> There does not seem to be a documented "standard rsync" command for
>>>> the mirrors to use, so I'm making all sorts of wild assumptions about
>>>> what a mirror's rsync is doing.
>>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Local_Mirror#The_synchronization_script
>>
>>
>> The real mirrors use that too?  The whole "local mirror" title kind of
>> threw me.  I was looking at
>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:NewMirrors .  My
>> bad.
>>
>
> Afaik not every mirror uses that script and it's quite hard to reach all
> the admins because there is no mailinglist (though I've heared it's
> going to be set up).
>

are you taking from your experience or you did find a mirror that does 
store old packages? afaik only kernel.org mirror does that but they were 
contacted.

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Ionut