[TriLUG] Question for ibiblio people

Tanner Lovelace lovelace at wayfarer.org
Wed Feb 27 22:45:50 EST 2002


On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 22:36, John Reuning wrote:
> Here's the deal with the Mandrake mirror.  About a year ago, we set up a 
> complete mirror of the mandrake distributions.  The mandrake folks have 
> their data split into two directories or mount points (or something like 
> that -- there are 2 rsync mount points, ftp1 & ftp2).  Their original 
> request for mirroring had us putting the files into 2 directories 
> corresponding to their setup.  A few months ago, we noticed that their 
> mirrors web page reflected a different directory structure.  And finally a 
> few days ago, we got a new config from them and changed our mirroring to match.
> 
> Anyway, sorry for breaking links.  Actually, I think the links on the 
> mandrakesoft mirrors page to the ibiblio site were out of sync for a while, 
> too.
> 
> -jrr

Ah, that explains it.  Thank you very much for the info.  And,
let me apologize again for the combative tone of my first e-mail. :-/

Just out of curiosity, are these directories available using
the rsync protocol?

Thanks very much,
Tanner
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