I was just tweaking some settings on the mirror server I maintain, and it occurred to me that I hadn’t posted about this before.

I’ve set up a UK2 software mirrors server, mirroring several projects:

• CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
  
  Via: HTTP and FTP
  (To use from CPAN.pm, use the following commands in the CPAN shell:)

  > o conf urllist unshift ftp://mirrors.uk2.net/pub/CPAN/
  > o conf commit
  

• Linux Kernel Archives from kernel.org:
  HTTP: /pub/linux and /pub/software
  FTP: /pub/linux and /pub/software.
• Slackware Linux (latest version and slackware-current):
  Via HTTP and FTP
• Arch Linux:
  Via HTTP and FTP

  To use, add the following to /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

  Server = ftp://mirrors.uk2.net/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/i686

  (If you have a 64 bit system, replace i686 with x86_64)

Obviously, the server and bandwidth are kindly provided by UK2.NET – it’s nice for us to be able to give something back to the Open Source community, since we use quite a lot of Open Source software.