Re: Creating a PEAR mirror

Hello Tim, > At work I and some colleagues use PEAR quite heavily including doing > quite a lot of fresh installs. Although we have a caching proxy > locally to try to avoid unnecessary downloads, I think we still end > up fetching quite a lot from the master server. To reduce our demands > on the PEAR master server I was wondering about creating a mirror of > some sort. Some questions: > > a) Who do we need to contact to get an rsync or similar account? We are in the process of setting up an official mirror guide http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=13886 but have not come very far yet. > b) How big (in file size) is the complete mirror? 1.8 GiB > c) Would a private mirror be OK, or only one that was publically > accessible? Since we don't have a procedure to handle public mirrors, private ones are even more away :/ > d) Regardless of the answer to (c), is there any demand for a second > public European mirror (there is already Christian's in Germany)? If > so, is there any estimate of what that would involve in terms of > resources (bandwidth)? The mirrors (mine at least) are rarely used. So currently, bandwidth requirements are pretty low, except the bandwidth required for syncing. Having mirrors is good anyway, so I would not say no. However, first we have to solve some problems including how to make sure mirrors are white ones, e.g. http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/Linux-package-management-systems-not-completely-secure--/111103 -- Regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen Christian Weiske -= Geeking around in the name of science since 1982 =-

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