On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 03:43:37PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote on 08 July 2008 15:35: > >> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 09:47:09AM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >>> * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:16:56 +0700) >>>> I'm a system administrator of FPT Telecom - one of the largest ISP in >>>> Vietnam. I'm being responsible for becoming a mirror of community sites. >>>> >>>> I have a question: >>>> How does our site become a mirror of Cygwin? >>> >>> "Contact sourcemaster at this site [...]. sourcemaster is also the place >>> to send requests to be added to this list." >>> http://www.cygwin.com/mirrors.html >> >>That's right. >> >>Remember that sending email there just will get you added to the list. >>We (i.e., I) don't advise you in *how* to do this but setting up an >>rsync mirror should be fairly straightforward. > >... and one way of doing it is documented (in the section "Creating a >local Cygwin mirror with rsync") at > >http://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/package-server.html
Hmm. That page tells people to rsync from a mirror. I don't see any reason to do that when you can use rsync from cygwin.com directly. Was that just to save on sourceware.org bandwidth? If so, I don't think this is an issue anymore. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
