[CentOS-devel] CentOS-devel Digest, Vol 77, Issue 6

John R. Dennison jrd at gerdesas.com
Sat Jul 9 20:40:00 UTC 2011


On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 09:49:08PM +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>
> And if all mirrors were set properly this discussion would never happen.

And that's the whole point of all of this.  Content is seeded in such a
way that it is restricted from the public until the time that the read
bit is enabled when the actual release announcement is made.  Some
mirrors, either willfully and knowingly, or perhaps by some automated
means such as a script, have opened the directories up.  So yes, this
content is leaked.  And it has been strongly cautioned on IRC and
elsewhere that using this leaked content before official release was
asking for trouble in the event that a reissue of components was made.
And sure enough, such a reissue proved necessary in the case of the
CentOS-6 release.

Leaks happen every single release.  And at least one of the currently
leaking mirrors has done this in the past so it's not a new story even
for them.  Running a mirror really isn't that difficult; generally,
barring normal administration tasks of course, it's fire and forget.

But until the project does something to either slap the wrists of mirror
operators that leak content in some manner, or just remove their mirror
status perhaps for the case of repeat offenders, it's going to continue
to occur.

As far as those _using_ the content?  They should know better.  There
has been no official announcement of general CentOS-6 availability; they
should know not to use that which is leaking out - especially if they
had to actively search out such content.

This is an enterprise level distribution, some thought really is
required.





							John
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