Becoming a mirror of Cygwin

[Dave Korn]

Christopher Faylor wrote on 08 July 2008 15:35:

> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 09:47:09AM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>> * mirror@fpt (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

    cheers,
      DaveK
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