----- "Karanbir Singh" mail-lists@karan.org wrote: <snip> | yes, I dont think we will have nearly as much traffic on these arch's | to | merit putting them on the main mirror system.

I'd be willing to host the side arches as a mirror. I'm already hosting Ubuntu, a soon to be full CentOS mirror and a soon to be Fedora Enchilada mirror

| > Probably the CentOS infrastructure team need to discuss this | > as to where reference 'side architecture' CentOS builds will | > 'live', outside the general mirroring | | good point, I've added it to the list of things. | | > Once I have a bootstrap into CentOS 5, and then 6 as time | > indicates, it may well be possible to 'wire' a ground up | > rebuild on the current CentOS builder and testing process, and | > any future builds into that current process | | Sounds good! There is some work that Ray has been doing as well, and I | | think we should have install media for centos-5 out from there in the | | next few days. Let me collect packages and put them on dev.c.o. But | you | raise an interesting point w.r.t 5 and 6 - at this stage, is it worth | | considering 6 to be a more productive target than 5 for arch's that | will | be supported through to 6 ( ie, not ia64 ) ?

You are correct. IMHO perhaps we should target the upcoming 6 packages. When 6 is released we plan to go to it ASAP. I'm already certifying the RHEL 6 platform for our environment using the RHEL 6 Beta software.

| > The unit also 'tweets' its progress at | > http://twitter.com/buildmonbot | | nice!

Very cool indeed. :)

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