[Alpine-info] Repository mirror and availability in the UK

[Mark Hills via Alpine-info]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2025, Doug Luce wrote:


> I've done a manual update of the Github mirror so it should be at 

> Eduardo's HEAD now.


Thanks, I can see those patches now. Very helpful.
 

> Seems the "Public mirror" label is a Github-internal thing and not 

> accessible to regular customers. I'll look into using a Github action or 

> something else to keep it up to date automatically.


That would be a great, thank you.

A shame they no longer offer this as a first-class feature, but I suspect 
that's their business interests.


> I generally use SSH's SOCKS tunneling capability to route requests to a 

> machine in the US and get around country blocks like this.


Yes, and I won't speak on UK politics here but I suspect as a technical 
problem it's best to look for solution from both sides.

I'll investigate using Git over a SOCKS proxy (any tips appreciated) so I 
always have an option.

But also it's healthy for a project like Alpine to have mirrors. FWIW I'm 
generally supportive of the use of a smaller hosting provider (like 
repo.or.cz); instead of the whole world on GitHub.

Thanks again,

-- 
Mark