Re: [ros-users] New Mirroring method for API docs

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Subject: Re: [ros-users] New Mirroring method for API docs
Hi Everyone,

As predicted in my previous email we have now also upgraded the wiki dump
to use rsync. The new instructions are available at:
http://wiki.ros.org/Mirrors

An incremental update can be done now in less than a minute.

Tully


On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Tully Foote <>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is a message to maintainers of ROS mirrors. We have updated the
> infrastructure to support mirroring of the API documentation from a tarball
> download to an rsync invoction. The new method takes significantly less
> bandwidth, processing, and diskspace to maintain the mirrors.
>
> The updated instructions have been posted on the wiki
> http://wiki.ros.org/Mirrors You will need to replace the download and
> unpack command with a single rsync command.
>
> Due to the improved performance for both the source and downstream mirrors
> I expect to switch the main wiki mirror over as well in the near future. I
> will send a follow up message about that too.
>
> Tully
>