Revision: 823
http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=administration&revision=823
Author: ineiev
Date: 2025-04-25 14:40:25 -0400 (Fri, 25 Apr 2025)
Log Message:
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update description of the redirecting script
Modified Paths:
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trunk/sviki/Mirroring.mdwn
Modified: trunk/sviki/Mirroring.mdwn
===================================================================
--- trunk/sviki/Mirroring.mdwn 2025-04-15 06:05:26 UTC (rev 822)
+++ trunk/sviki/Mirroring.mdwn 2025-04-25 18:40:25 UTC (rev 823)
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
used for `gnu mirror` or `nongnu mirror`.
The mirror list text files (`gnu.txt` and `download.txt`)
-contain an auto-generated list of active mirrors and region redirections:
+contain an auto-generated list of active mirrors and region preferences:
# head -n5 /opt/savannah/mirrors/active-mirror-lists/gnu.txt
http://us.mirrors.cicku.me/gnu/ us
@@ -149,14 +149,16 @@
http://mirror.marwan.ma/gnu/ ma
http://ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/gnu/ pl
# tail -n5 /opt/savannah/mirrors/active-mirror-lists/gnu.txt
- ye az
- yt za
- za za
- zm za
- zw za
+ ye
tr,gr,in,md,ro,hu,at,pl,ru,de,za,fr,es,dk,nl,fi,se,ma,no,pt,cn,sg,tw,jp,br,ca,us,nc
+ yt
za,in,tr,gr,sg,ro,md,hu,at,ma,pl,es,ru,de,fr,cn,pt,nl,dk,se,fi,no,tw,br,jp,nc,ca,us
+ za
za,br,gr,tr,ma,in,es,ro,md,pt,hu,at,sg,fr,pl,de,nl,dk,se,ru,fi,no,cn,tw,nc,jp,ca,us
+ zm
za,gr,tr,ma,ro,in,md,es,hu,at,pt,fr,pl,de,nl,br,dk,se,ru,fi,sg,no,cn,tw,jp,ca,us,nc
+ zw
za,tr,gr,in,ma,ro,md,es,hu,at,pt,fr,pl,br,de,nl,sg,dk,ru,se,fi,no,cn,tw,jp,ca,nc,us
-(Yemen [YE] uses the mirrors located in Azerbaijan [AZ], Zimbabwe [ZW] uses
-the mirrors located in South Africa [ZA].)
+(Yemen [YE] uses the mirrors located in Turkey [TR], Greece [GR], India [IN],
+Moldova [MD]...; Zimbabwe [ZW] uses the mirrors located in South Africa [ZA],
+Turkey [TR], Greece [GR]... The redirecting script selects a random mirror
+from the most preferred countries so that at least 5 mirrors are selected
from.)
See [['mirmon' section below|Mirroring#mirmon]] to learn how these files are
generated.
