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I saw somebody else having UK mirror problems as well as me, and answered as below then though a new thread was needed.
The uk mirror has been out of action for sometime unfortunately. Anyone got plenty of bandwidth to host one ??
I noticed Gentoo has mirror held by Virgin media, would this have been paid for? would they host for Arch? Anyone know who to contact?
Who in Arch would i need to contact about mirrors? I would be happy to try and contact virgin media. I think they would be a reliable host.
Ideas? Thoughts? Comments?
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The university of Kent has a UK mirror service that you can host on - I believe for free.
See here for contact details.
http://www.mirrorservice.org/Help/Contact_Us
They host plenty of other distros so should be able to help.
If not, then I think there's a similar set-up at the university of Warwick that might be of use.
Hope this helps.
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Thank you, I will look into this, who looks after the main arch mirror at ftp://ftp.archlinux.org?. I guess i would need there permission to go ahead first.
Thanks
Gary
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I've made the request at Kent, and have asked that - if this happens - it could be made the official UK mirror.
I don't think you need permission to host the arch mirror since there are unofficial mirrors listed in the wiki - but we can sort all this out once we know what Kent say.
I'll post back when i hear anything.
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Oh well done, just finished work for the day as was going to start the ball rolling but i can now get on with moving about 60 email accounts between exchange servers instead, lucky me !?!
Thanks for keeping us posted on the situation, i think it will be a job well done.
Many Thanks
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Quick update.
Have mentioned this to Aaron Griffin, who seems to be in favour of a new mirror.
Have posted a feature request re the need for a new mirror and the possibility that Kent uni might host it.
Waiting and seeing...
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No news from Kent but we have the all-clear to set up a new UK mirror from the Arch people though.
Top of my to-do list for Monday is to give Kent a ring and speak to someone in person.
I'll post back with details of how it went then.
Last edited by floke (2007-10-20 08:49:18)
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Good News!
Kent have provisionally agreed to do it - providing they have enough space, though this shouldn't be a problem.
Next step is to get the synching info from the devs and pass it on to Kent - then we should have our new UK mirror!
Will have to sort this tonight though since am at work and pressed for time...
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We have a new UK mirror!
See here for details:
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.archlinux.org/
Change repo source to
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp. … re/os/i686
(+ community, testing etc. - example for i686)
Just upgraded with it now so can confirm it works.
** Have also started new thread on this to attract more attention to it **
Last edited by floke (2007-10-22 18:46:28)
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No problem.
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Any idea what their sync schedule is? I'm fairly spoilt for choice already around here, but you can never have too many mirrors - and this is just next door to me.
Well done on this - thanks.
On yeah - it's maxing out my download as I type.
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No idea
But it must be fairly regular - I Syu'd last night and again at mid-day today and got updates both times.
They host a load of distros so must know what they're doing
All thanks to the UK Mirror Service!
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just like to add my thanks for sorting this out. Just set it up and did a major upgrade to CORE DUMP and 000´s mb of kdemod, all worked well.
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Just switched to this mirror myself. Definitely faster. Excellent work, floke.
0 Ok, 0:1
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