CPAN mirrors broken?

David Cantrell david at cantrell.org.uk
Tue Jan 10 12:23:11 GMT 2006


On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 03:39:03PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> David Cantrell <david at cantrell.org.uk> writes:
> > Where are people rsyncing their local CPAN mirrors from these days?  I
> > noticed that mine's not updated for some time, and it seems that I don't
> > get anything new from several of the usual rsync places - but when
> > talking to those same mirrors using ftp or http, like what CPAN.pm does,
> > I get plenty of stuff.
> Keep this baby bookmarked:
> <http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/henkp/mirmon/cpan.html>

Ah, but those are all ftp and http.

I could use Lee McCloughlin's "mirror" script, but rsync is far more
elegant.

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