[Savannah-hackers-public] autoredirect for savannah downloads

[Karl Berry]

Randy Kobes in Winnipeg has set up autoredirection services for GNU,
CPAN, and CTAN.  That is, a generic url that automatically redirects to
a "nearby" mirror -- e.g., http://ftpmirror.gnu.org, http://mirror.ctan.org.

I expect he would be happy to do the same for the non-GNU savannah
downloads, now that we have several mirrors
(http://dl.sv.nongnu.org/releases/00_MIRRORS.html).

Would having this be of interest?

If yes ... for it to work, we would have to install mirmon
(http://people.cs.uu.nl/henkp/mirmon/) -- that's how Randy's service can
know which mirrors are up to date.  Mirmon itself is a Perl script that
is no particular problem to install.  However, since I've never
installed anything on savannah before, I'd need some guidance to do it.
E.g., do I just enter the vserver frontend and then do a "normal"
install in /usr/local?  Or are there other conventions that should be
followed?

karl