Re: Provide rsync access to GNU ELPA for mirroring it

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Is there a reason to not build the packets locally, instead of
>> downloading them all from ELPA?
> Good point, actually I never think about this way before, maybe this
> is a good way for Gnu ELPA. git access to savannah is very slow (< 50
> KiB/s) and unreliable here, I will try this way after (if) git-clone
> is done. Also, I am not sure if building locally can keep old versions
> of packages like GNU ELPA.

No, indeed, the current build scripts won't always generate the same
packages: it depends on when they're run.

> Anyway, I still think rsync is the best way to mirror.

Agreed.  I'll see if I find the time to setup a read-only rsync access.
I'm sure it's not too complicated, but if someone can provide me the
typical steps and a sample config file (on a Debian machine) it would
probably nudge me towards doing it more quickly.


        Stefan