On 22 October 2010 08:11, herman <her...@aeronetworks.ca> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 17:07 -0700, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: >> 2010/10/22 Olivier Thauvin <nanar...@nanardon.zarb.org>: >> > >> > In fact we have no way to deny to someone to do a partial mirror. The >> > question is from our point of view, do we encourage people to create >> > non testable mirror or untrusted mirror (not update enough to ensure >> > last security update get sync). >> Besides that people can put up mirrors in any way they want and use >> them in any way they want. They are just not listed as "official >> mirrors of Mageia". >> Everybody was happy, the maintainers of the list, >> me, and all people who used my mirror (it was not crowded, even at >> release time). A solution suitable for everybody. > So should we have an 'Official mirror list' and an 'Unofficial mirror > list'? Because a mirror that is not listed at all, is rather hard to > find. >
I think wobo meant "local" mirrors, e.g. the mandrivauser.de mirror was mainly used by German users who found out about it from mandrivauser.de forums. (and having a list of "unofficial mirrors" will be a pain, how would one differentiate "unofficial" mirrors that just don't mirror some sub-trees, e.g. debug, and "unofficial" mirrors that are just plain old/don't-get-synced-regularly). -- Ahmad Samir