[arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

[Nathan Wayde]

On 19/09/10 17:26, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote:
> [...]
> As I posted on the forum... How hard is it to run rsync and look at the
> man page for rsync? rsync is the *only* command that is needed to create
> a local mirror.
>
> We want to discourage this behavior as much as possible and it is really
> quite trivial to setup a mirror.
>
> Setup a local mirror
> 1. rsync to local dir (look at the developer's wiki for mirrors and the
> proper rysnc arguments)
> 2. Set up webserver to serve local dir (if on a lan)
> 3. Set local mirror url in mirrorlist
> 4. Alternatively use Server = file:///mnt/media/mirror/$repo/os/x86_64
> in pacman.conf or mirrorlist
>
> That is all that has to be done.
>
> If one is going to be creating a local mirror, he/she should really have
> this basic knowledge.
>

This elitist attitude is what pisses me off most about the Arch 
community but I must admit that you sir just took it to the next level.
I'll answer your question anyway. It's pretty easy to create a local 
mirror. But in your haste to show off your holyness you forgot that the 
issue isn't about creating a mirror, it's about doing it properly 
without causing issues for upstream. Your idea about throwing an rsync 
command at is does things like sync the entire mirror(as-is recommended 
in the NewMirrors wiki) which I'm sure isn't what you actually want if 
you're going to create a local mirror and this will undoubtedly just 
waste bandwidth for the mirror, after-all, if it's the packages you want 
then why would you go and sync the ISOs or even the sources?

Now, I've stated my personal use-case and I' sure other have similar and 
other use-cases for having a local mirror, so I guess you have no 
argument against it other than it's something else that isn't useful to 
you so should be available to anyone else...

Now, If you think it's a good idea to keep trolling as opposed to go and 
read what the actual issues are then please continue you are free to do so.