I spoke toBen Haines at Pacific yesterday. They said that hopefully sometime in october/november when they do an equpment upgrade they will definately do a direct mirror of ARCH.
Hope they stick to their word. Regards Richard On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 06:59 pm, James Rayner wrote: > I'm in Melbourne. I get better speeds from pacific than any other > mirror in Australia, im on Optus Cable. > > I realise the mirror is a ibiblio mirror, but it hasnt ever seemed > that far behind to me. I know that when it was started a few months > ago, it did have some issues, but nowadays it's fine. The archck > community package was released on tuesday, and it was put on the > mirror sometime before today, which isnt too bad. > > All the same, a proper mirror would be much better and certainly more > reliable. Pacific is Australia's only Arch mirror, so it's be great to > get a complete one. Even better would be an Optus one, but I can't see > that happening soon :) > > > Thanks! > > James > > On 9/1/05, Richard Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > James, > > > > Question for you about pacific mirror (which I used to use). It is > > actually an ibiblio mirror of arch and doesn't seem to be updated all > > that often. A month ago I did a side by side file comparision of > > versions of the packages and some of them on the ibiblio mirror were > > quite out of date. > > > > Hence I rsynced the entire arch linux respository onto my file server > > here at work and rsync it daily as I have 4 ARCH machines on my network > > here at work and like to keep them up to date (should add them to the > > stat's I guess) > > > > I'd prefer to use the pacific mirror as well, as their ftp stuff is > > really fast. > > > > I'm actually also on a closed network with Pacific which links all the > > hospitals and general practices in Newcastle. > > > > I've asked Ben Haines form Pacific to directly mirror the main Arch Linux > > site as distrinct from ibiblio and he said they would consider it. Must > > ring him up and chase that. > > > > Where are you in AU? > > > > Regards > > > > richard > > > > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:20 pm, James Rayner wrote: > > > Awesome :) > > > > > > For some unknown reason, I get decent speeds from there here in > > > Australia, so that'll be on my mirror list after the pacific AU > > > mirror. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > iphitus > > > > > > On 8/31/05, John Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > Just to inform you that ftp.archlinux.org is now being mirrored at > > > > > > > > http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.archlinux.org/ > > > > ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.archlinux.org/ > > > > > > > > Heanet is a service of the Higher Education Authority of Ireland and > > > > provides the backbone to Irish third level institutions with 2 X 2 Gb > > > > links (bandwidth utilisation is typically less than 20% so plenty of > > > > capacity for everyone). > > > > > > > > Enjoy, John (jrbeire). > > > > > > > > -- > > > > John Britton, BE, CDipA&F, PhD > > > > PSPA Project Manager, > > > > Centre for Bioengineering, > > > > Trinity College, Dublin 2 > > > > www.pspa.ie > > > > www.biomechanics.ie > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > arch mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > > > _______________________________________________ > > arch mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
