Setup mirrors

david david@daku.org
Tue Mar 10 21:26:47 GMT 2020


At 02:18 PM 3/10/2020, you wrote:
>On 2020-03-10 14:44, david wrote:
> > At 01:35 PM 3/10/2020, you wrote:
> >> On 2020-03-09 17:11, Andrey Repin wrote:
> >> > Greetings, Robert McBroom!
> >> >
> >> >> On 3/8/20 11:14 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> >> >>> Greetings, Ray Sabee!
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> As an enthusiastic user of your 
> software for many years, we would like to do
> >> >>>> something in return.
> >> >>>> We are very fond of the open source 
> model and we would like to contribute to
> >> >>>> this great project.
> >> >>>> We have a lot of servers and per 
> request on your website, we would like to
> >> >>>> make one of more servers available for mirroring the packages.
> >> >>>> I would love to know how we can set 
> this up and it would be great if you can
> >> >>>> provide me with some sort of manual or wiki page.
> >> >>> Did you search the most obvious place for information?
> >> >>> https://cygwin.com/mirrors.html
> >> >>>
> >> >> That is the list of mirrors not a howto on becoming a mirror
> >> >
> >> > The text was there prior to recent website downtime.
> >> > Since then, a number of things gone wrong, 
> including mailing list signature.
> >>
> >> Now back to normal:
> >>
> >> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  https://cygwin.com/mirrors.html#mirroradmin
>
> > Gosh, I detect no change in the 
> information.  The advice on how to set up a
> > mirror is:
> >
> > Please do not send questions asking how to 
> set up a mirror. We don't provide
> > technical support for setting up mirrors. Sorry.
> >
> > I fear the original mail is still unanswered, unless I'm missing something
> > obvious.  The page advertises:
> > Last updated: 2020-03-10 18:31 UTC; Mirror size: 152G
>
>If you don't see a big box below that with a large reddish headline reading:
>
>         Mirror Administrators: Read This!
>         ...
>
>you need to clear any cached pages for the site or your browser.
>
>-


I do see the Mirror Administrators: Read This! 
box.  In it is the "please do not send" command, 
and other comments, but no answer to "how to 
setup".  Is the "last modified" date I posted 
incorrect?  After clearing the cache, I still get the 2020-03-10 18:31 page.

David





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