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On 2016-05-12 11:47:57 -0400 (-0400), Mathieu Mitchell wrote:
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> We would like to officially request a mirror for Tiny Core Linux.

The other mirrors which we're operating came into existence because
interested stakeholders did the work to implement them within the
frameworks we have available (or extended them where required), not
simply because someone came to the infra team and requested to have
them.

> They currently has a network of mirrors [3], so it should be
> possible to host a mirror. Going forward with this proposal should
> resolve our initial concern.
[...]

We wouldn't run a public mirror anyway, it would be a network of
private mirrors distributed throughout our various CI environments
so as to be located as close as possible to our job workers.
Basically a CDN implemented via an AFS cache with Apache running in
front of it.

I browsed around on the TCL site briefly but didn't see where they
had any instructions on recommended mirroring mechanisms. Different
distros update their package repositories in different ways and the
mechanisms used to sync one are not necessarily safe for another, so
you would at a minimum want to find out a lot more about how it's
supposed to be mirrored before embarking on a quest to design and
implement one within our infrastructure.
-- 
Jeremy Stanley