Newsgroups: comp.text.tex

>ctan find can only allow me to choose listed mirror sites.  Is it
>possible to specify my own ctan mirror info? If not, I think it is
>really necessary for ctan find...

your own private mirror is not part of the ctan system. since ctan find is using information it holds behind the scenes about which archives can do what[*], it can't deal with archives that are kept secret. (it can't deal with my private one either, and not just because the machine it's on is currently switched off ;-)

it might be useful to consider provision for private mirrors as an enhancement to a future version of ctan find, but it surely isn't difficult to locate a file in your own mirror once you have a url for a copy on a main ctan site?

[*] not much of it just now, but we have plans…

Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge