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-rw-r--r--pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/mirrors.nix10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/mirrors.nix b/pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/mirrors.nix
index e429c130b5e7..88f4e064fa13 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/mirrors.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/mirrors.nix
@@ -22,10 +22,18 @@ rec {
 
   sf = sourceforge;
 
-  # GNU.
+  # GNU (http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html).
   gnu = [
+    # This one redirects to a (supposedly) nearby and (supposedly) up-to-date
+    # mirror.
+    http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/
+
     http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/
     http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/
+    ftp://mirror.cict.fr/gnu/
+    ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/gnu/
+    ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/gnu/
+
     http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/
   ];