On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:53:35 +0800 "." <desire@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Carlos Carvalho <carlos@fisica.ufpr.br>wrote: > > > Neil Williams (codehelp@debian.org) wrote on 11 January 2012 22:15: > > >However, many mirrors complain about use of rsync and every once in a > > >while, specific mirrors will fail to rsync. > > > > Use the official country mirrors, ftp.<country>.d.o. They must offer > > rsync, it's part of their duty. If you find one that doesn't complain > > here. ftp.uk should have worked but every so often it doesn't so I'd > > avoid it. The same for us and tw... > > > > Although country mirrors *should* offer rsync, Peter stated that when it is > necessary to temporarily reassign the country mirrors, the http service is > the only criterion. See > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mirrors/2011/06/msg00007.html > > Perhaps I don't quite understand the requirements. Can't you pick one of > the push-primary or push-secondary mirrors offering rsync from the list at > http://www.debian.org/mirror/list-full and use its canonical name (rather > than country mirror alias)? > > For greater robustness, modify the script to test for success else retry > with an alternate mirror. I do need to implement a fallback mechanism, that's true. Thanks for the tips, I'll adopt a list of mirrors, including the bytemark one, and work from there. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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