[CentOS-mirror] Mirror Changes - Important

Fri Apr 1 22:31:10 UTC 2005

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Bob Pierce wrote:

> The urls listed at http://centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=13
> for us should be:
> 
> http://centos.westmancom.com/
> ftp://centos.westmancom.com/
> 
> Without the centos/ path added at the end of each.

yup -we are working on that - a leftover from being beneath cAos :)

Regards
Lance

> 
> Thanks,
> Bob
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org
> [mailto:centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Lance Davis
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 7:02 PM
> To: Mailing list for CentOS mirrors.
> Subject: RE: [CentOS-mirror] Mirror Changes - Important
> 
> 
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Bob Pierce wrote:
> 
> > That wasn't intentional at all...
> > 
> > Found we had to add the following to your instructions:
> > 
> > rm /pub/centos/2.1
> > mv /pub/caos/centos-2 /pub/centos/2.1
> 
> ah - ok - you may not have synced since I made that change earlier to
> the 
> master mirror.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Lance
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org 
> > [mailto:centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Lance Davis
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 6:06 PM
> > To: Mailing list for CentOS mirrors.
> > Subject: RE: [CentOS-mirror] Mirror Changes - Important
> > 
> > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Bob Pierce wrote:
> > 
> > > Our new mirror locations are as follows:
> > > 
> > > http://centos.westmancom.com/
> > > ftp://centos.westmancom.com/
> > > 
> > > We won't be mirroring caos for now.
> > > 
> > > Let me know if there's any questions about our setup.
> > 
> > Thanbks - you dont seem to have 2.1 - is that deliberate ?? or again 
> > something wrong at our end ??
> > 
> > Regards
> > Lance
> > 
> > > 
> > > Good day,
> > > Bob Pierce
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org
> > > [mailto:centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Lance Davis
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:42 PM
> > > To: centos-mirror at centos.org
> > > Cc: caos-mirror at caosity.org
> > > Subject: [CentOS-mirror] Mirror Changes - Important
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Due to the split of mirrors with cAos , it will be necessary for
> > > mirrors
> > > 
> > > to make some changes to the way that they mirror the CentOS tree, as
> > > moving forward it will no longer be a part of the caosity tree.
> > > 
> > > Firstly mirrors need to decide whether they are mirroring CentOS or
> > > cAos
> > > 
> > > or both. They are distinct operating systems, CentOS is a rebuild of
> > > Enterprise Linux , whereas cAos is an rpm based distribution in its 
> > > own right.
> > > 
> > > For more information see www.centos.org or caos.caosity.org
> > > 
> > > At present both trees are mirrored with a single rsync of
> > > mirror.caosity.org::cAos - moving forward two rsyncs will be needed
> :-
> > > 
> > > mirror.caosity.org::caosity that will get the caos tree
> > > 
> > > and
> > > 
> > > msync.centos.org::CentOS that will get the CentOS tree
> > > 
> > > Please note that at present CentOS will be listed and stored within
> > > the cAos tree, this should not be the case in the future - CentOS 
> > > should never be stored or listed as a part of cAos or caosity.
> > > 
> > > Mirror Changes
> > > --------------
> > > 
> > > In order to achieve the changes required with minimum download
> > > bandwidth
> > > 
> > > the following steps should be carried out. (Note that individual
> > > circumstances may vary - if in doubt do nothing and ask) .
> > > 
> > > 1. Stop cron based rsync job from syncing
> > > 
> > > 2. Move the CentOS tree to its new location, which should be at the
> > > root
> > > 
> > >    of the publically served tree.
> > > 
> > >    This can either be achieved with 'mv' or if you want a 2nd chance
> > > at it
> > >    'cp -al' which will create a hardlinked copy of the tree (as long
> 
> > > as it
> > >    is on the same partition)
> > > 
> > >    eg with directory structure 	/pub
> > > 				/pub/caos
> > > 				/pub/caos/centos
> > > 
> > >    cp -al /pub/caos/centos /pub/
> > >    or
> > >    mv /pub/caos/centos /pub
> > > 
> > >    to end up with 		/pub/
> > > 				/pub/caos
> > > 				/pub/centos
> > >    (and 			/pub/caos/centos/ if using cp -al)
> > > 
> > > 3. Create a new rsync cron job to sync the CentOS tree (if required)
> 
> > > .
> > 
> > > This should be    something like :-
> > > 
> > >    rsync -aqzH --delete msync.centos.org::CentOS /pub/
> > > 
> > >    *** note the change to msync.centos.org *** mirror.centos.org is 
> > >    deprecated for rsync use - to allow us to use different servers 
> > > for
> > 
> > > yum
> > >    mirrors.
> > > 
> > >    please use rsync -anvzH --delete msync.centos.org::CentOS /pub/ 
> > >    first to test that the command will do the right thing ('n' is 
> > > dry
> > > run
> > >    and will just show what wil be transferred - which in theory
> should
> > 
> > > be very
> > >    little - if it says 40 GB + then the command is wrong !!)
> > > 
> > > Note that due to the way that rsync works any updates will only be
> > > written to this new tree and not the hardlinked tree left behind if 
> > > using cp -al
> > > 
> > > above ( that can be deleted once you are happy with the new location
> > > working).
> > > 
> > > 4. Create a new rsync cron job to sync the cAos tree (if required).
> > > This
> > > 
> > > should be something like :-
> > > 
> > >    rsync -aqzH --delete mirror.caosity.org::caosity /pub/
> > > 
> > >    *** note the change to ::caosity - ::cAos will still sync both
> > trees
> > >        for mirrors that havent restructured yet.
> > > ***
> > > 
> > >    This will also delete the CentOS tree left underneath the caos 
> > > tree
> > 
> > >    above.
> > > 
> > > You should now have both trees in the correct places.
> > > 
> > > 5. Please email the list to say that you have restructured your 
> > > mirror
> > 
> > > and what the new urls will be for public use. We will update the
> > > databases to reflect these new locations.
> > > 
> > > 6. It is not necessary to mirror all of centos if you do not wish to
> 
> > > -
> > 
> > > eg you can choose whether to carry 2.1 , 3.3, 3.4, 4.0 - but please
> > > note in
> > > 
> > > the email any trees that you will not be carrying and we will note
> > > that in the database.
> > > 
> > > 7. In the very near future we will be restricting access to
> > > msync.centos.org to publically listed mirrors only - we have to 
> > > establiush a way for new mirrors to sync first though.
> > > 
> > > 8. We will be tracking which mirrors have/havent restructured and 
> > > will
> > 
> > > contact individual mirrors accordingly.
> > > 
> > >  There is now an irc channel - #centos-mirror on irc.freenode.net
> > > where mirroring discussions may be held.
> > > 
> > > Lance
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
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