[svlug] VA Linux Mirror

[Chris J. DiBona]

Hey,

first off, you should really go to sourceforge.net , it our professional
mirror. I'll pass on your complaint though :-)

second: RH is kind of a pain when it comes to their mirroring. I'll let
Robert Hart detail it, then you'll understand.

 Chris

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On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, J. Paul Reed wrote:

> 
> Has anyone else been having problems with the VA Linux FTP site having
> accurate mirrors of things lately?
> 
> A month or so ago, you could find all the RPMS and a full mirror of a
> variety of RedHat versions, including the current one, which is what I'm
> looking for.
> 
> Now, if you look in
> ftp://ftp.valinux.com/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/redhat-6.2/i386/RedHat/
> which used to be populated with the standard RHAT install directories,
> it's now got just one directory: instimage/; I have also seen sometimes,
> where ftp.valinux.com only has a sparc entry in
> /pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/redhat-6.2/.
> 
> Is VA no longer mirroring RHAT, or is something just no kosher over there?
> 
> Anyone else see this, or am I a bit 'koo-koo.'
> 
> as if it depended on VA's FTP site,
> Paul
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