About Rpmfind.Net Server

Go directly to the RPM database

Learn more about rpmfind and rpm2html

Location:

It is located in Grenoble, France, hosted by INRIA, on the RENATER network.

There is another French mirror fr2.rpmfind.net maintained by Fabrice Bellet at INSA.

Hardware and Software:

It is powered by Linux. This is not a 100.000 $ machine but rather a noname standard machine assembled from various pieces, there is just more disks hooked to it than a desktop machine. You can get more informations and pictures (but slightly outdated).

The machine runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, on a cheapo Athlon XP with 512MB of RAM. The I/O system is made of a 3Ware card with 8 Maxtor IDE drives (for a total of 10 drives in the box).

Ads:

You should see no ads on rpmfind, and as few graphics as possible for rpm2html output. I will stick with this policy as long as possible, thanks to INRIA for providing the bandwidth.

Content:

Here is a few information on what you can find on this site:

• This server hosts some Linux resources:
  • The rpm2html and rpmfind tools

  • A large mirror of various RPM based distribution (Note that this mirror is also accessible via HTTP), and the local rpm2html database generated from those..

The logs since the last software reinstall of this server.

About multiple FTP/HTTP connections:

It's Ok to make multiple simultaneous downloads from rpmfind.net, but more than 5 at a time won't be considered "nice behaviour" and it the load goes up too much the connections of those kind of unfriendly user are simply killed, you're warned. Also repetitive attempts results on the source host being banned access to rpmfind.

Uploading to Rpmfind:

This is getting a FAQ, so let's answer this one here. While there is an incoming directory, I don't usually accept uploads of RPMs in that area, the proper way to get something installed and indexed on rufus is to upload to one of the reporitories I mirror. I usually do not serve as a primary source for packages.

Mirrors:

Everything is available via FTP or HTTP and rsync.

Last point the whole FTP area of rufus is available by HTTP and Rsync. If you plan to build a mirror or a subpart of rufus please use rsync ! Do NOT use HTTP mirroring, I don't have WebDav installed and without PROPFIND, HTTP mirroring is just inappropriate. I tend to ban people hosing my HTTP server with stupid mirroring tools, you're warned !

Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>