[wwwdocs] PATCH for Re: New GCC mirror in Algiers, Algeria - mirror.hostarts.dz

Gerald Pfeifer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gcc.patches,gmane.comp.gcc.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 20 Aug 2026, Houssam Chergui via Gcc wrote:
> We would like to offer a new GCC mirror, located in Algiers, Algeria.
> 
> Mirror URL:    https://mirror.hostarts.dz/gcc/
>             http://mirror.hostarts.dz/gcc/
>                    rsync://mirror.hostarts.dz/gcc/
>   Location:  Algiers, Algeria (AS329667)
>   Contact:   Houssam Chergui <[email protected]>
>   Sponsor:   HOSTARTS - https://hostarts.dz

Thank you, Houssam. I just pushed the patch below which adds your mirror
to our list at https://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html .

> The mirror carries the complete ftp area (releases, snapshots, 
> infrastructure, old-releases, libstdc++, summit), synchronised twice 
> daily from rsync://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-ftp with deletions propagated, so 
> snapshots do not accumulate.
:
> The machine is a dedicated mirror host on a 16 TB array [...]

This was a good reminder for me to trim our snapshot area to be lighter on 
our mirrors – now several GB less.

> As far as we can tell from https://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html, the only 
> mirror on the African continent is mirror.marwan.ma in Morocco. This one 
> would be the second in Africa and the first in Algeria

Nice indeed.

Let me know if your entry is fine or you suggest some changes. (You also 
can always send a diff agains the page.)

Gerald


commit 9fe3adcbcb5cb4889672323b5c7b79a99ba47524
Author: Gerald Pfeifer <[email protected]>
Date:   Sat Aug 22 20:39:23 2026 +0200

    mirrors: Add hostarts.dz, Algeria mirror

diff --git a/htdocs/mirrors.html b/htdocs/mirrors.html
index 798920909..eb0086190 100644
--- a/htdocs/mirrors.html
+++ b/htdocs/mirrors.html
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ mirrors</a>.</p>
 <a href="snapshots.html">our snapshots</a>:</p>
 
 <ul>
+<li>Algeria, Algiers: <a href="http://mirror.hostarts.dz/gcc/">hostarts.dz</a> (rsync://mirror.hostarts.dz/gcc/), thanks to Houssam Chergui &lt;[email protected]&gt;</li>
 <li>France (no snapshots): <a href="ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/gcc/">ftp.lip6.fr</a>, thanks to [email protected]</li>
 <li>France, Brittany: <a href="ftp://ftp.irisa.fr/pub/mirrors/gcc.gnu.org/gcc/">ftp.irisa.fr</a>, thanks to [email protected]</li>
 <li>Germany, Berlin: <a href="https://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/languages/gcc/">ftp.fu-berlin.de</a>, thanks to [email protected]</li>
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