German SVN Mirror (was: Australian Subversion Repository Mirror)

Bernd Walter ticso at cicely7.cicely.de
Sat Aug 25 05:43:32 UTC 2012


On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:18:44PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 07:04:41PM +1000, John Marshall wrote:
> > In the absence of any advice as to the propriety of allocating FreeBSD
> > domain names to public FreeBSD Subversion Repository mirrors, we have
> > gone ahead and allocated a domain names to the mirror I announced here a
> > month ago.  If we've done the wrong thing, please let us know.
> 
> Your naming matches with what we did 4 years ago, so at least people
> agree about this point.
> 
> > These Subversion repositories are hosted on the same machine which hosts
> > the Australian CVSup mirror and one of the Australian www mirrors, and
> > is located in Brisbane, QLD.  The Subversion repositories are updated
> > hourly from svn.FreeBSD.org via svnsync and have been operating reliably
> > for the past month.
> > 
> >   svn://svn.au.FreeBSD.org/base
> >   svn://svn.au.FreeBSD.org/doc
> >   svn://svn.au.FreeBSD.org/ports
> 
> svn://svn(1).de.FreeBSD.org/base was running and updated via svnsync since

One small point - it is:
http://svn(1).de.FreeBSD.org/base
http://svn(1).de.FreeBSD.org/doc
http://svn(1).de.FreeBSD.org/ports
The original setup predates svnserv.

> the beginning of FreeBSD svn tree, but never officially announced as
> svnsync didn't support repo surgery, which was considered a complete
> show stopper at that time.
> AFAIK this problems havn't been solved yet, but despite the fact that
> there isn't an official mirror policy to handle those problems
> cvsup mirroring had been declared dead in 9.1-RC1 annoucement.
> Would have been very nice to have this worked out before, but there
> wasn't even a notification for mirror admins.
> Today I've decided to add doc and ports repositories to the mirror,
> so at least we have everything available at best knowledge.
> 
> Server location is Frankfurt Main in Germany with hosting and hardware
> kindly sponsored by Plus.line (http://www.plusline.de/).
> Since FIZON (http://www.fizon.de) recently sponsored us new hardware we
> are in the progres to relocate the service for svn and cvsup to the new
> machine within the next couple of weeks.

-- 
B.Walter <bernd at bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de
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