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  • From: David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] SOURCEFORGE_URL
  • Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:52:01 -0600

On 02/18/2013 07:46 PM, Sukneet Basuta wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:43 PM, David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org> wrote:
>> Setting the url to that for now is probably reasonable, but there is no
>> advertised mirror list for sourceforge. Unless someone can provide me a
>> mirror listing provided by sf.net that's official and provides the urls
>> to all the mirrors, I will not condone doing such things.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Mirrors is an
> official list (you can find a link to it when you select a specific
> mirror) and the urls are shortname.dl.sourceforge.net
>
> It does have the following disclaimer however
> " Please keep in mind that not all mirrors will be enabled at once
> (mirrors sometimes are pulled from rotation), and not all mirrors have
> all files; some of the mirrors listed here may not be shown when you
> try to download a file. "

Yeah I know of this, and I took the disclaimer to say this:
"Thanks to our sponsors"

And so, it's not really an official mirror list like say:
http://kernel.org/mirrors/

--
David


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