Mirror of Eric's multilib repository. Any in Asia?

Lockywolf · 12-06-2018, 09:36 PM

Hello, everyone.

I'm using Eric's multilib repository for 32-bit support, which I update with slackpkg+.

The problem is, downloading is very slow, because I live far from the Netherlands.

Is there any mirror of the multilib repository closer to China?

MIRRORPLUS['multilib']=http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/multilib/current/

tramtrist · 12-06-2018, 10:23 PM

Also interested in this. From Japan

zakame · 12-06-2018, 11:22 PM

From the Philippines, Eric's site isn't too slow, but what I usually do for multilib is just grab glibc+gcc only, without the slackware64-compat32 package dirs. Instead I just rebuild slackware64-compat32 these through the massconvert32.sh script, fetching the 32-bit packages on the local PH (rise) or US (osuosl) mirror. This is worthwhile to do on -current (as there's a bit of lag until Eric refreshes) so YMMV.

willysr · 12-07-2018, 02:08 AM

try this: https://repo.ukdw.ac.id/multilib/

Lockywolf · 12-07-2018, 03:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr

try this: https://repo.ukdw.ac.id/multilib/

Thanks!

Also, can someone tell me.
Is rsyncing the repo and exposing it to the world over https just enough to make a mirror?
Will there be any problems with signatures, something like that?

Didier Spaier · 12-07-2018, 04:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lockywolf

Is rsyncing the repo and exposing it to the world over https just enough to make a mirror?
Will there be any problems with signatures, something like that?

Maybe this web page will answer your questions: https://mirrors.slackware.com/guidelines/

Alien Bob · 12-07-2018, 06:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lockywolf

Thanks!

Also, can someone tell me.
Is rsyncing the repo and exposing it to the world over https just enough to make a mirror?
Will there be any problems with signatures, something like that?

The packages have GPG signatures made by me, and also the overall checksums files are digitally signed. You will always be able, even from a mirror location, to verify and validate that the packages are un-altered after I signed and uploaded them.

bassmadrigal · 12-07-2018, 10:50 AM

Here's another mirror.

https://slackware.uk/people/alien/multilib/

chrisretusn · 12-08-2018, 02:09 AM

Another possible option.

I live in the Philippines. I use slackpkg with multilib, but I sync with Alien Bob's repository locally. I use a bash script to update my local repository. The URL in slackpkgplus.conf points to this local mirror.

This is the script I use. I run it from the directory the script is installed in ('bash update.multilib.sh'). This places the desired parts of the repository in the sub-directory ./multilib. In my setup I run the script from /home/non-slack/ the files are placed in /home/non-slack/multilib/. I track the repository via RSS and run the script when there has been an update. Sometimes like today, just run it to see if there has been an update (nope).

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# update.multilib.sh
# Script to sync with Alien Bob's multilib repository.
rsync --delete-excluded -Hav --progress --human-readable \
  --exclude=13.*/ \
  --exclude=14.*/ \
  rsync://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/multilib/ ./multilib

Applicable section from slackpkgplus.conf:

Code:

MIRRORPLUS['multilib']=file://home/non-slack/multilib/current/

I don't do this for being slow though, I have a couple of other multilib installs and having a local mirror make updating those installs simple.

The advantage is slackpkg+ only checks my local mirror. Much faster, syncing to Alien Bob's repository is not needed that often. I would think syncing is faster too. I removed one file from my mirror and this is what I got when updating via the script.

Code:

chris@racermach:/home/non-slack$ bash update.multilib.sh 
               #####          ##
              #######         ##    #### ##  ## ##  ## ##   ##
              ##O#O##         ##     ##  ### ## ##  ##  ## ##
              #VVVVV#         ##     ##  ## ### ##  ##  ## ##
            ##  VVV  ##       ##### #### ##  ## ###### ##   ##
           #          ##
          #   ALIENS   ##     'BEAR' - Alien's Slackware goodies -
          #            ###
         QQ#           ##Q    
       QQQQQQ#       #QQQQQQ
       QQQQQQQ#     #QQQQQQQ  You might find me as alienBOB
         QQQQQ#######QQQQQ    in channel ##slackware on Freenode IRC.



receiving incremental file list
current/
current/gcc-brig-8.2.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz
          6.86M 100%  638.47kB/s    0:00:10 (xfr#1, ir-chk=1153/1195)

sent 89 bytes  received 6.92M bytes  446.71K bytes/sec
total size is 386.09M  speedup is 55.76