Some changes have been made over the last few weeks regarding the various facilities for mirroring and the like.... the most important you should be aware of, for those of you who do FTP-based mirroring, is that you should now be mirroring simply
ftp://ftp.apache.org/ instead of ftp://ftp.apache.org/apache/ This is mandatory as of a few minutes ago; actually the "new" URL has been working for a few weeks, with /apache/ as a symlink, but I noticed that the symlink was giving cvsupd a lot of grief, even when I attempted to tell it to ignore it using "omitany" or recognize it as a symlink using "symlink" in the config files. So it was an option between supporting CVSup or supporting the old URL through FTP, and I chose the former. So, yes, on that topic, "cvsup"-based mirroring has been broken for a few weeks as well, and is now working again. I know this has been a religious debate on here, but I continue to advocate that mirror sites use rsync or cvsup as their mirroring tool rather than FTP. I would really like to do away with FTP for a number of reasons, and I have noticed by looking through the xfer logs that FTP usage is way down anyways, and I've removed it from the "how to mirror" pages too. Brian