On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 11:59 +0200, Johannes Winkelmann wrote: [...]
Maybe it would be a better idea to mirror the source tarball on crux.nu, since at some point 2.6.8 will disappear as well. I'll do that, and change rsync.prt.tar.gz accordingly.
How about fixing this issue once and for all and mirror all the core/opt distfiles somewhere central [...] The main reason this isn't in place is the additional work needed to
Hey Mark, On 8/8/06, Mark Rosenstand <mark@borkware.net> wrote: maintain those distfile mirrors. Combined with the fact that the source availability has been very good recently (my humble opinion as crux _user_) there seemed no real reason to implement a mirroring concept which would add more burden on our shoulders. That said, if there's a volunteer (are multiples ones of course) who'd like to work with us to implement such a system and later maintain it, and could in addition provide bandwidth (amount unknown so far) and HD space for it, we'd definitely do our part to help test it (and in case of a success also make it an official subproject). I'd assume that once setup, the time required for maintenance of this system would be rather low, but during an initial phase, things might be different. If you feel that you'd be in for the above, please contact me :-). Best regards, Johannes -- Johannes Winkelmann jw@smts.ch