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Ryujin

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Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

I am pleased to announce that a new Arch Mirror is up in the US, after a long time working to get everything set up we have created a our first open source mirror project, please add us to your repository lists, our server is very fast!

ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archlinux/

-Thomas S Hatch
Southern Utah University

Last edited by Ryujin (2007-04-14 15:45:41)

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hussam

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Re: Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

How often does it sync?

Ryujin

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Re: Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

hourly

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Misfit138

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Re: Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

I would like you to know that we appreciate your efforts very, very much. Excellent- EXCELLENT work, my friend.
Thanks to you and everyone else working on this fine distro.
I just reinstalled Arch, and have been tweaking my /etc/pacman.d/ repos, and can't wait to try yours out.

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junglepeanut

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Re: Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

Dear Ryujin,

      Thank you...Thank you...Thank you. I am afraid to say this as it may bog you down and then it won't be so fast (for me), but this maxed out my home line of 6Mb/s. If your in North America this is the new speed demon coming out way on top...hopefully actually all the mirrors will get faster as the load gets more diversified. Thanks again Ryujin.

Sincerely,
     Jp

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Re: Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

Congrats!!!!!!

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ralvy

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Re: Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

Thanks so much. The US really needed this. Quite fast over here in L.A.

soloport

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Re: Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

Very much appreciated!

Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but, is rsync available?  If not, could it be?

[user@host ~]$ rsync locke.suu.edu::
rsync: failed to connect to locke.suu.edu: Connection refused (111)
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(104) [receiver=2.6.9]

Ryujin

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Re: Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

Thank you for your compliments, I just set this server up and ftp has only been available for a day, I will have rsync up soon but it is not my top priority.  We are hooked into a 3 gig pipe and right now Arch is the only thing in our mirror so go ahead and heat up the pipe!  I am very happy to have it here too as many of the North American servers have been a mess lately, I enjoy getting my 1000+ K download from home via this new mirror!

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Echo

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Re: Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

Ryujin,

Thank you for your efforts, very nice, quick, error free sync/upgrade.

Echo

Pudge

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Registered: 2006-01-23

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Re: Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

Ryujin,

First, thanks for your efforts in getting the University to host this.  Second, for your efforts in implementing the server.

I live in Colorado, and I am downloading at around 750 Kbps or a little more.  That's pretty much maxing out my Broadband Cable connection (Comcast).  I couldn't be happier.

Thanks again,

Pudge

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Snowman

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Re: Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

Please make a feature request on the bug tracker to have it added to pacman's mirror list.

soloport

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Re: Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

Snowman, it's already on the wiki page (which is suppose to be more up-to-date, no?)

soloport

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Re: Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

I just set this server up and ftp has only been available for a day, I will have rsync up soon but it is not my top priority.

Ryujin,

Thanks again!
The reason rsync is nice, it supports a --delete flag (if I've missed something in 'man wget', please let me know).

skottish

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Re: Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

Thanks Ryujin. This is indeed (more) welcome news on the American mirror situation.

Ryujin

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Re: Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

Snowman, I sent an email on the pacman-dev list announcing it, I will make a bug report as well, we want very much to be on that list.

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Ryujin

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Re: Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

OK Snowman, I sent in the feature request, if anyone finds a problem with the mirror please tell me so I can get it fixed (so far everything looks to be going smoothly, pretty good for my first mirror!)

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Blind

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Re: Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

Hi Ryujin,

Thank you for your work! This is a nice mirror!

Cheers,
Blind

Winblowz99

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Re: Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

Thank you very much for the outstanding work, Ryujin! The new mirror works AWESOME. The work is greatly appreciated

ToastedToad

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Re: Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

Thanks a million!!!

byte

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Re: Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

I just set this server up and ftp has only been available for a day, I will have rsync up soon but it is not my top priority.

Ryujin,

Thanks again!
The reason rsync is nice, it supports a --delete flag (if I've missed something in 'man wget', please let me know).

Try 'help mirror' in lftp.

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soloport

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Re: Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

Try 'help mirror' in lftp.

Thanks!

Come to think of it, though, another reason to use rsync is support for '--exclude-from <large-exclude-list-file>'.  This helps reduce the burden on the host mirror.  Example: exclude the dozens of localized openoffice-??- variations (14MB each!).

Can this level of flexibility available (and cron'able) with ftp client?

Gullible Jones

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Re: Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

Hey, thanks for the new mirror. I love the speed.

luke

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Registered: 2004-06-22

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Re: Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

Thanks for the Mirror! It is working great here. Great job.

deficite

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Re: Southern Utah University Arch Linux Mirror

I probably won't be using it due to my location in the US, but I do want to thank you anyways for supporting Arch Linux. It's quite a selfless and respectable thing to donate bandwidth. Thank you.

Hopefully the next newsletter will mention this.