Please update GNU GCC mirror list

Please update GNU GCC mirror list

[JohnT]

  Some of the sites listed on the mirror list 
http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html aren't up to date and some aren't 
accessible. LaffeyComputer.com doesn't allow access, and used to require 
a password for access. This isn't the way a GNU mirror site ought to 
operate. There should be free public access.

John Tellefson
Salina, KS USA

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Re: Please update GNU GCC mirror list

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, JohnT wrote:
> Some of the sites listed on the mirror list 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html aren't up to date and some aren't 
> accessible. LaffeyComputer.com doesn't allow access, and used to
> require a password for access. This isn't the way a GNU mirror site
> ought to operate. There should be free public access.

Thanks for the report, John.  I regularily run a link checker that
also covers our mirror sites.  That is not as easy as it may seem
at first since some mirrors only provide local access within their
geography and removing them based on my testing from one place on
the planet would be premature.

That said, mirrors.laffeycomputer.com may indeed not be active 
anymore.  Let me include mirrormaster@laffey.biz, the documented
contact for that mirror.

mirrormaster@laffey.biz, would you mind letting us know about the
status of your GCC mirror site?  Indeed I'm not able to access this
from any machine I am trying, always running into a timeout.

Gerald

Re: Please update GNU GCC mirror list

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> That said, mirrors.laffeycomputer.com may indeed not be active 
> anymore.  Let me include mirrormaster@laffey.biz, the documented
> contact for that mirror.
> 
> mirrormaster@laffey.biz, would you mind letting us know about the
> status of your GCC mirror site?  Indeed I'm not able to access this
> from any machine I am trying, always running into a timeout.

I did not see any response and the site is still unreachable, so
removed this mirror now per the patch below.

Gerald

Index: mirrors.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/mirrors.html,v
retrieving revision 1.195
diff -u -r1.195 mirrors.html
--- mirrors.html	30 Dec 2009 08:00:17 -0000	1.195
+++ mirrors.html	30 Apr 2010 13:34:18 -0000
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@
 <li>Slovakia, Bratislava: <a href="http://gcc.fyxm.net/">gcc.fyxm.net</a>, thanks to Jan Teluch (admin at 2600 dot sk)</li>
 <li>UK: <a href="ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/gcc/">ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/gcc/</a>, thanks to mirror at mirrorservice dot org</li>
 <li>UK, London: <a href="http://gcc-uk.internet.bs">http://gcc-uk.internet.bs</a>, thanks to Internet.bs (info at internet dot bs)</li>
-<li>US, St. Louis (no snapshots): <a href="ftp://mirrors.laffeycomputer.com/pub/gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/">mirrors.laffeycomputer.com</a>, thanks to mirrormaster at laffey dot biz</li>
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 <li>US, Texas: <a href="http://gcc.releasenotes.org">gcc.releasenotes.org</a>, thanks to Alex Korolev (alex at releasenotes dot org)</li>
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