On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 mirror-maintainer at mirror.averse.net wrote: > Is there any requirement on where to place the centos directory, so that > it is consistent across all centos mirrors? eg. /pub/centos No - because different mirrors have different setups. As long as the centos directory is accessible via the published urls. > Is there a requirement to mirror ALL of centos, including the rather old > 2.1 (which incidentally is a symlink pointing outside of the centos > directory and apparently only makes sense if you're also mirror cAos)? No - and that 2.1 link will be fixed - thansk for pointing it out. > I've been mirroring CentOS only for some time. Available at > ftp://mirror.averse.net/pub/centos > http://mirror.averse.net/centos > rsync://mirror.averse.net/centos Thanks - do you want it listing ?? If so what bandwidth do you have ?? > > Any particular reason why the rsyncd module is called CentOS rather than > centos, when the directory itself is called centos? rsyncd.conf seems to > refuse to allow both capitalizations at the same time. No - just CentOS is the name if the distro - it is anticipated that boith would be configured on the mirrors but they havent been done yet. Regards Lance > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > All, > > > > There are instructions on CentOS.org concerning how to become a mirror. > > Those instructions are for _NEW_ mirrors only. (And for mirroring CentOS > > only via the new mirror). If you want to do that, the instructions are > > here: > > http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=22 > > > > We are currently working out a plan to split cAos and CentOS mirrors, so > > if you have an existing CentOS mirror (or cAos mirror), you should > > continue to use your current mirror method until the detailed plan (and > > instructions) are put in place and mailed to this list. You will then > > be able to split the process into a cAos and CentOS mirroring process > > and pick one, the other, or both to mirror. > > > > Thanks, > > Johnny Hughes > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror > -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.