Announcing first (unofficial) public fedora mirror, India.

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Oct 4 14:18:29 UTC 2007


susmit shannigrahi wrote:
> Hi *,
> 
> WBUT (http://wbut.net) is glad to announce the opening up of their
> private Fedora mirror for public use.
> 
> Probably, this is the first Public fedora mirror in India.(At least I
> am not aware of any other.)

IIT Chennai has one although they aren't listed in the official mirror 
list either. We are working on that.
> 
> Though due to bandwidth constrain we are not considering ourself to be
> listed as a official mirror, we may be so in near future.

It is possible to list the mirror in the mirror list but not make it 
public so that your college can access it first.

> It follows the standard directory structure and only mirror i386 and x86_64.
> Also we don't mirror srpms.

You should atleast point to the official list for SRPMS after talking to 
Matt Domsch (CC'ed)  about this.

> 
> The url is
> 
> http://mirror.wbut.ac.in
> 
> Happy downloading.

Great work.

Rahul




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