Arch Linux

sorry, i had a mistask, we are not the archlinux offical mirror, and we request to become an authorized mirror.

I have added the lupaworld mirror, but Dan, I'm not sure what to enter for RSync hostname?

Dusty

I usually just nslookup the rsync host to see what server is actually calling us. I am not completely sure why I made that a required field, but oh well. I also always stick the FS# in the notes field...

Anyway I added the IP address and updated the rsync config on gerolde.

There is either something wrong with the rsync script or they stopped mirroring. Ther are currently only some old isos on that mirror. (for more than two weeks)

yes, we change ip address, and i got the error:"@ERROR: access denied to ftp from unknown (115.238.55.232)"
and because of short of disk space, we will only mirror isos from now on.

The mirror is not accessible via FTP. Is it temporary or permanent?

We will not reenable access to your new IP address because we're moving to 2-tier mirroring scheme.
Please sync everything from from rsync://ftp.tku.edu.tw/archlinux/ with the following rsync options:
-rtlvH --delete-after --delay-updates --safe-links --max-delete=1000
Let us know when these changes are done so we can update our database.

Also please join arch-mirrors mailing list:
http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-mirrors

ok, i have change the script, and join the maillist, thank you.

I still cannot access ftp://mirror.lupaworld.com/archlinux/
Do you provide only http and rsync now?

P.S.: I'm leaving the report open until the directory tree will be resynced to match the layout of the upstream mirror

sorry, i made a mistake, the ftp work now.

still cannot access via ftp,
but the main issue is that only isos are provided, so the mirror will not be added to the db until this is fixed
(the main point of db is to hold data for generating pacman-mirrorlist)
we got reports that tku.edu.tw is slow, so you can try one of these tier1 mirrors:
rsync://mirror.aarnet.au/pub/archlinux/
rsync://rsync.gtlib.gatech.edu/archlinux/
rsync://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/

i have checked, the ftp do works.
we are running out of disk space, so we decide to only mirror the isos.

the mirror is in our db now, but there's a problem with it not having packages:
pacman-mirrorlist is generated from the db, so it will contain the mirror in the list,
but users that will enable it will not be able to upgrade.
On the other hand, since it contains ISOs it can be listed on the download page.
The problem is that there's no way to indicate that a mirror should not be used for pacman-mirrorlist generation.

Dan, what do you think about this?

1. Notice that we don't have any other mirrors in this situation- precedent is if you want to be a mirror, you do packages first, and ISOs second.
2. The usefulness of an ISO-only mirror to a rolling-release distro is minimal.

We have plenty of mirrors willing to mirror everything, so I think saying "thanks but no thanks" here is the right idea, unless they flip their mirroring strategy to do packages only.

i know that, just remove us from the mirror list. we just have 20G space left on our disks, so we can't mirror packages.

Okay, removing from the db then.
BTW, the mirror is listed at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirrors#Unofficial_mirrors