[Support-mirrors] Gem mirror

[James Britt]

Tom Copeland wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 14:39 -0700, James Britt wrote:
> 
>>I'm hoping to finally get set-up for mirroring off the correct server,
>>and tried running this command so as to  fetch the gems while I wait
>>for nameserver changes to happen.
>>
>>rsync -r -z -t anonymous at rubyforge.org::gem-mirror
>>
>>I see a long list of file names shoot by, but no files are fetched.
>>
>>Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> 
> Hm, I think you may need to do something like:
> 
> rsync -r -z -t anonymous at rubyforge.org::gem-mirror .
> 
> i.e., specify a target directory.
> 
> But anyhow, you may want to switch things around to allow Dennis'
> machine to sync to yours instead... that's the wave of the future!


What does that mean, "allow Dennis' machine to sync to yours "?


What specifically do I have to do to get rsync playing nice with his 
machine?


James