> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Topping 
> Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 11:32
> 
> On Apr 22, 2012, at 10:26 AM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> 
> > 1. Is mirrors.ibiblio.org a good source for mirroring 
> repo1.maven.apache.org?
> > 2. is there a strong reason not use rsync?
> 
> Mirroring a repository like that is considered very bad form 
> and will probably get your servers blacklisted.

This caught me off guard. Is that not the point of ibiblio.org supporting rsync?
We have a daily rsync set up with them for other projects.

> 
> I don't have the benefit of other posts you may have made on 
> this subject, 

No other posts on this topic.

> but unless you are hosting half the known world 
> of developers, why wouldn't you just use a repository? 

The mirror team has bandwith management infrastructure inplace. They did not
want to modify their system to support Nexus for Nexus sake. We have a nexus
server on our dev lan already. Our dev lan does not have direct access to the
internet.

> It 
> makes things so much simpler with your builds since real 
> world projects generally do not pull from just central.  

It was listed on the bandwidth report.

> Having a half-dozen repositories in your build is a great way 
> to have it constantly slow (and even slower at times when any 
> one of those repositories is offline).  Caching those 
> repositories through Nexus insulates you from their downtime, 
> without having to soak their bandwidth for files you will never use.

I agree that the Nexus pull only when needed is nice. But there are other
concerns too. The real question is there a strong reason for not using rsync
other than use Nexus.


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