RE: [Admin] Plea for rsync support on intimate.handhelds.org/debian

I think it would be a good idea to support mirrors of handhelds.org. I would prefer mirrors of the whole site, if possible. I'll check on the index browsing problem, I think the other two requirements are no problem.

Jamey

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David McNab [mailto:david_at_rebirthing.co.nz]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 8:14 AM
> To: admin_at_handhelds.org
> Cc: intimate_at_handhelds.org
> Subject: [Admin] Plea for rsync support on
> intimate.handhelds.org/debian
>
>
> Hi HHO Admin,
>
> I'm a grateful user of Intimate and Familiar linux.
>
> However, being in New Zealand, I often suffer some extremely adverse
> connection speeds. Sometimes my ADSL connection slows down to
> 600bytes/sec for up to an hour at a time.
>
> So to rid my life of the resulting torment, I'm mirroring the entire
> official Debian-ARM feed from the Debian network.
>
> I'd like to ask if you could please make it possible for me to do the
> same with the intimate.handhelds.org/debian feed.
>
> What this will require is:
>
> 1) rsync server, similar to many of the debian mirrors that have this
> feature (see http://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror)
> 2) FTP server, to allow rsync to work
> 3) Allow index browsing on intimate.handhelds.org/debian, instead of
> returning 403's.
>
> Your help in these matters will eliminate massive amounts of pain from
> my experience with Intimate and Familiar Linux.
>
> Thanks so much in advance! :) :)
> David
>
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Received on Tue Mar 19 2002 - 13:49:36 EST