[CentOS] DAG repo problem (continuation)

[Dag Wieers]

On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Henk van Lingen wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 03:04:08PM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
> 
>   > >   For a system as popular as Dag's, it doesn't look sane to me to have
>   > >   your main mirror on a testbox, right? There have to be other mirrors/
>   > >   people who would be happy to help him, i think. 
> 
>   > Since I don't know how much traffic is being used every day it's 
>   > impossible for me to consider other mirrors as main mirror.
> 
>   Could you elaborate on this? It could very well be that I'm naive (how
>   much data are we talking?), but wouldn't it be possible to have a
>   box somewhere to which only you/rpmforge and the mirrors can connect and
>   let the mirrors sync from this one? If I were to supply you such a box,
>   (just to improve the quality of my mirror :-)) what should the specs be?

The repository is now about 25GB data and this only increases over time. 
Best bet is to have 5GB additional every year.

I currently have 1 box that only HEAnet can connect to. This used to be 
the main server until I got 20GB traffic per day (almost 3 years ago). At 
that point it costed me too much personally and first Axel (atrpms) and 
then Matthias (freshrpms) offered me to host it.

But I have no clue how much bandwidth is used every day. HEAnet offers 
rsync access as well for all mirrors (and individuals), so I can only 
assume this is a considerable amount that far exceeds 20GB/day.


>   > RPMforge currently only comprises of Matthias, Dries and me. Other people 
>   > are welcome to send fixes or problem-analysis. If you want to help, please 
>   > don't simply send a report. If you have suggestions on how we can provide 
>   > more information so you can help analysing problems, let me know.
> 
>   Maybe the RPMforge-homepage can announce known and/or current probs in
>   hardware and/or packages?

Well, most of these problems affect only 1 distribution or only 1 builder. 
The right place to discuss it should be the users mailinglist right now, 
the homepage is not actively maintained. (I wish it was though)

I yesterday rebuild all metadata again and I removed the createrepo cache. 
Can one report on the users mailinglist if they still have problems 
with corrupt checksums ?

If this fixes it, it's a createrepo bug.

Thanks.

Kind regards,
--   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]