-Imported jdp's "How to Become an Official FreeBSD CVSup Mirror Site"

from http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/mirror/ so it can be part of our
 official documentation.

en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/article.sgml

@@ -81,13 +81,6 @@
 
   <sect1 id="mirror-becomingofficial">
     <title>How to become an official FreeBSD mirror site</title>
-    <para>Check your country subdomain is exist or not. If not,
-      configure nameserver appropriately and then send your
-      details to <email>hostmaster@FreeBSD.org</email>. If exists,
-      contact hostmaster of your country subdomain. Hostmaster of
-      subdomain is listed in the
-      <ulink url="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html">
-      Handbook</ulink>.</para>
     <para>Official mirrors may get access to <emphasis>master
       </emphasis>sites:</para>
     <itemizedlist>
@@ -105,16 +98,82 @@
       <para>Mirrors should be encouraged to also allow rsync
         access for the FTP contents, especially Tier-1 mirrors.</para>
     </sect2>
-    <sect2 id="mirror-cvsupmaster">
+    <sect2 id="mirror-officialcvsup">
-      <title>About cvsup-master.FreeBSD.org</title>
+      <title>CVSup</title>
-      <para>Sample supfile for cvsup-master:</para>
+      <sect3 id="mirror-cvsupmaster">
-      <programlisting>*default host=ftp-master.FreeBSD.org
+        <title>About cvsup-master.FreeBSD.org</title>
+        <para>Sample supfile for cvsup-master:</para>
+        <programlisting>*default host=ftp-master.FreeBSD.org
 *default base=/ftp-master
 *default prefix=/ftp-master/pub
 *default delete use-rel-suffix
 
 FreeBSD-archive         release=all preserve</programlisting>
+      </sect3>
+      <sect3 id="mirror-cvsuprocedure">
+        <title>Procedure</title>
+        <para><emphasis>By <email>jdp@FreeBSD.org</email></emphasis>.</para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>Make sure your country really needs another mirror.
+              If it already has three or more, ask
+              <email>freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.org</email> first.</para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>Read the
+              <ulink url="http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/cvsup-access/">
+              FreeBSD CVSup Access Policy</ulink></para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para><ulink url="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL">
+              Subscribe to freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org</ulink></para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>Install CVSup using the <port>net/cvsup</port> port
+              or package. You may prefer to use the package, because it
+              eliminates the need to download and build the large PM3
+              ports. You can find the latest package <ulink
+              url="http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/s1g/i386-nogui/cvsup-16.1e.tgz">
+              here.</ulink></para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>Set up the required authentication by following <ulink
+              url="http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/cvpasswd/">these
+              instructions</ulink>. Make sure you specify the server as
+              <hostid>freefall.freebsd.org</hostid> on the cvpasswd
+              command line.</para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>Install the <port>net/cvsup-mirror</port> port. Specify
+              the master site as <hostid>cvsup-master.freebsd.org</hostid>
+              when it asks you.</para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>Once you are sure your mirror site is working OK, ask the DNS
+              administrator of the <hostid>xx.freebsd.org</hostid> zone (where
+              "xx" is your country) to add a CNAME <hostid>cvsupN.xx.freebsd.org
+              </hostid> pointing to your mirror</para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>Ask <email>freebsd-doc@freebsd.org</email>, or <email>
+              freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org</email> to add your mirror site to
+              the <ulink url="http://www.freebsd.org/handbook">FreeBSD
+              Handbook</ulink>. Make sure you tell them the email address
+              to list as the maintainer of the site</para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>To get better performance and lower system loads during updates
+              from the master site, edit <filename>/etc/crontab</filename> and add
+              the option "-s" at the end of the command
+              <filename>/usr/local/etc/cvsup/update.sh</filename>. Make sure your
+              mirror is working well before you do this.</para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+            
+      </sect3>
     </sect2>
+
+          
   </sect1>
   <sect1 id="mirror-statpages">
     <title>Stat links</title>