Robin Kipp wrote: > I am currently running a Debian (Wheezy) server which is hosted in a > professional datacenter. The datacenter is located in Germany, and > is directly connected to major backbones. As I do have loads of > unused bandwidth and disk space, I’d like to contribute to Debian’s > infrastructure by hosting and maintaining an Aptitude mirror. Thank you for contributing! > I’ve already set this up using the ftpsync scripts, and manual > syncing already appears to work. However, I’d like to be able to > utilize push syncing, however this requires an upstream mirror to > connect to my server via SSH and issue a certain command. Is there > any way of setting this up with an upstream mirror? The Debian Wiki > page on the topic goes to great lengths in explaining how push > syncing works technically, but is rather vague on how to arrange > push syncing with an upstream mirror… Please read the mirror docs which includes how to contribute mirror hosting resources. This will give you all of the information you need to be become an official mirror or make other mirror contributions. And you will want to subscribe to the mirror announcement mailing list too. http://www.debian.org/mirror/ Hope that helps, Bob
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