Hi all, Below some misc news about Debian mirrors, regarding the official status of the backports archive and the upcoming Squeeze release. On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 11:08:37PM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Backports service becoming official press@debian.org > September 5th, 2010 http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100995 [..] > Informations on how to use the backports service are available at the new > backports website [5]. Users of the old backports service should change > their sources.list to point to: > deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports lenny-backports main contrib non-free > (or one of its mirrors). Backports mirrors to be accessible at /debian-backports/ ======================================================== First, you can notice the name has changed because of the official status, from backports.org to debian-backports : * please make the backports mirror available at /debian-backports/ as well (for all FTP/HTTP/RSYNC). * without breaking the old path :-) Rsync and push setup for backports mirrors ========================================== Note any previous push setup from www.backports.org is deprecated and will not be moved automatically, you can sync from a mirror listed at http://backports.debian.org/Mirrors/ Please check whether your "standard archive" upstream provides backports, if so please ask them for a push, and tell us your new backports upstream at mirrors@d.o or http://www.debian.org/mirror/submit Offical mirrors can ask us for a push trigger. Upcoming Squeeze release and periodic reminders =============================================== Debian mirrors *should* : - use the recommended tool ftpsync: http://debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror#how for all mirrors (debian, debian-backports, debian-volatile, etc.) - avoid drop/close architectures or access protocol (moreover without prior notification, notice arch addition[0] and size requirements [1]) - configure standard path like /debian/ /debian-volatile/ /debian-cd/ and avoid custom path - read the errors logs mailed by ftpsync - for ISOs, do not perform manual updates, but *automatic* either pushed or pulled (today is 5.0.6 !). [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mirrors-announce/2009/04/msg00000.html [1] http://www.debian.org/mirror/size Thanks for mirroring Debian and best regards. -- Simon Paillard mirrors@debian.org | #debian-mirrors@irc.debian.org
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