Re: [Gnu-arch-users] mirrors (was: tree has no patch log for version)

[Dustin Sallings]

On Saturday, Sep 13, 2003, at 14:13 US/Pacific, Robert Anderson wrote:

> You know the mirrors of the kernel source, the GNU tools, etc?  It's
> like that.
>
> Typically, a mirror distributes bandwidth usage or moves bandwidth 
> usage
> onto a more capable line.
>
> It can also serve the purpose of making all or some of an archive
> publicly available, by mirroring out to a reachable host (as opposed 
> to,
> say, a home computer on a modem with no hostname).

        This last point I completely understand.

	I'd like to be able to do some offline development.  I guess the 
problem is not an easy.  I suppose the best thing to do there is create 
a local archive an do an import, then create a patch and all that.

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