>From my understanding of Justin's email... The ASF is not looking for people to mirror the apache web sites so change your rsync script to point fo apache-dist as this is specific to the distributions directory on the apache server.
Then under distributions you can either all or or ignore the following drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 30 2002 CVS -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 532 May 30 2002 HEADER.html drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Nov 28 19:23 ant drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 12 11:11 apr drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Oct 20 10:47 httpd drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 5 2001 jakarta drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 5 2001 java drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 21 16:37 perl drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 20 2001 tcl drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 6 07:25 xml The above is a directory copy+paste from my local mirror which currently reflects everything in the apache-dist module. Andrew -----Original Message----- From: hc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 6 December 2002 9:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Heads up... Okay.. Iknow that apache-dist serves all distribution files, etc.. But just out of curiosity.. what purpose does apache-site module serve now?? B/c so far I noticed that apache-site module also downloads all of distribution files.. Is apache-site module now deprecated, or does it still maintain something, but just the web site only? Thanks -hc Andrew Kenna wrote: >I'm updating my mirror now to include all the new stuff in apache-dist > >Andrew > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Justin Erenkrantz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, 6 December 2002 8:36 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Heads up... > > >Just a heads-up to all of the mirror maintainers that we're starting >to see some adoption by the Jakarta and XML ASF projects into placing >their files in the apache-dist rsync module. Previously, you may >have rsynced from jakarta-site or other modules. We're going to try >to consolidate what we want our mirrors to offer under the >apache-dist module. This should ease the configuration burden on >mirrors. (As a point of policy, we're not going to want mirrors of >the actual websites for the forseeable future.) > >Therefore, you may start to see some large rsync jobs coming your way >soon as each project moves their files over. Furthermore, we're >going to be encouraging more use of the mirrors on our web sites. >This will take some time to complete the transition, but hopefully, >we're starting to see real progress. > >Our goal is to offload as much of the download traffic as we can to >your sites. If this is going to be a problem, let us know and we'll >remove you from our mirrors listing. We realize that we haven't been >efficiently using our mirrors in the past, but we're going to be >asking more of your sites now. Of course, we hope you will continue >to act as official ASF mirrors. And, thanks for helping us out! > >Also, I've been informed that there are some mirrors that are not >picking up these recent changes. You should now have a ant directory >in your local mirror. If you do not have that directory, please >check up on your rsync processes. If you need further assistance, >reply to this list and we can help you out. > >Thanks! -- justin > >
