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authorPatrick McDermott <pehjota>2019-08-05 19:29:29 (EDT)
committer Patrick McDermott <pehjota>2019-08-05 19:29:29 (EDT)
commit06582d494e01eee2bb15b89b85bb7f9951aa92b8 (patch)
tree4381a8dc55d981a3d3e78fd0c25061ada62fce01 /dev/archive
parent1e2095e1732f228ad0ba3cef073894fd58723aca (diff)
dev/archive/mirroring: Require HTTP
Someday, an HTTP redirector service may be introduced instead of prokit hardcoding a selected mirror into opkg.conf. (Another option is to wrap `opkg update` with a script that fetches the latest mirror lists (with soft fail) and updates the opkg configuration file(s) with a randomly selected mirror.)
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diff --git a/dev/archive/mirroring.mdwn b/dev/archive/mirroring.mdwn
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@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ Primary Public Mirror
---------------------
Primary mirrors are those that synchronize directly from
-&lt;files.proteanos.com&gt; and serve their contents publicly over rsync as well
-as HTTP and/or FTP.
+&lt;files.proteanos.com&gt; and must serve their contents publicly over HTTP and
+rsync and may also serve over FTP.
Run the following command one to four times daily to synchronize your mirror:
@@ -59,7 +59,9 @@ Secondary Public or Private Mirror
----------------------------------
Secondary mirrors are those that synchronize from a primary mirror and serve
-their contents either publicly or privately over HTTP and/or FTP.
+their contents either publicly or privately. Public mirrors must serve over
+HTTP and may also serve over FTP. Private mirrors may serve over either
+protocol.
Run the following command one to four times daily to synchronize your mirror: