Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch mirror site

[Robert Anderson]

--- Original Message ---
From: Tom Lord <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
CC: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch mirror site

>
>    > From: James Blackwell <address@hidden>
>
>    > First off, happy holidays to you and your loved ones!=20
>    > 
>    > I've set up a mirror of all of the archives I could find.
The mirror,
>    > available at http://sourcecontrol.net/mirrors, is updated
on the 5, 25
>    > and 50 of each hour.
>
>    > Please feel free to use this mirror whenever you like.
However, if you
>    > plan on frequently accessing an archive, I humbly request
that you
>    > consider mirroring the mirror locally.
>
>
>So sweet.   As a recent example, somebody sent me mail saying
"Ok, the
>FOO is ready in patch-37 of my --numbers-- branch."   Fine -- I
update
>my local mirror of that guy's archive only to see it stops at
patch-4.
>
>Perhaps he has a more recent archive that I don't know about yet?
>Sure enough -- 30 seconds at sourcecontrol.net saves me hours of
>back-and-forth in email to find the new archive.

Just made life real easy for me in catching up on recent
tla-bash-completion work, too.  Very nice, James.

Bob