Mirror sites (was: anoncvs.cygnus.com)

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan  6, 2002, Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> On 6 Jan 2002, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> I suggest the following update to mirrors.html, but I"m not sure we want
>> to put in mirror entries of sites that don't mirror gcc.gnu.org, but
>> rather ftp.gnu.org.  Opinions?  Ok to install?

> I had to think about this a bit ;)

Me too :-)

> | Our releases are also available on the GNU FTP server and its mirror
> | sites.

> The GNU mirror unicamp.br is listed at http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html,
> so I believe we shouldn't list the gcc subdirectory of that mirror on our
> mirrors.html page (or we should list all GNU mirrors on our mirror page).

> Does this make sense?

It surely does.  OTOH, given that we want to deflect as much access as
possible from gcc.gnu.org to mirrors, listing mirrors of ftp.gnu.org
explicitly wouldn't hurt, except for the additional maintenance
burden.

But since I'm not the one who maintains the web pages, I won't push to
increase your burden, so I'm removing the ftp.unicamp.br entry for
now.

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