[CentOS-mirror] 5.6 is coming closer

Tue Apr 5 21:21:45 UTC 2011
Jeff Sheltren <jeff at osuosl.org>

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Paul Stewart <pstewart at nexicomgroup.net> wrote:
> Could someone please explain the "bit flips" ?  Sorry, I haven't taken
> any time to understand this .. is it just a matter of the correct rsync
> command switches?
>

Paul, the way that mirror syncing for a release works for CentOS (and
many other distributions) is to setup the new directory such that it
is *not* world readable (chmod 700 5.6/ for example).  This way, the
files will populate the mirrors, but people will not be able to access
them via ftp/http/rsync until the bit-flip (chmod 755 or so).  This is
so that all mirrors will have complete content before people start
downloading/installing.

If your 5.6 directory is open currently, then you may want to look at
other rsync flags to fix it (we use -p).

-Jeff