mirror June 2005

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Mirror Changes - Important
by Lance Davis 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

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 -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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Heads up - CentOS 4.1 is almost here
by Karanbir Singh 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

Hi guys, Just a quick note of advance(!) notice : CentOS 4.1 tree is starting to be populated with the IA64 branch. i386 and x86_64 will start shortly and complete in 72 to 96 hrs times. We are looking at an approximate size increase of 4 to 5 GB for the /centos/4/ tree. We will try and ensure there is a lag, from the time the pkgs are uploaded, to the Announcement itself, allowing the mirrors to catch up. To save on mirror space, duplicate packages in 4.1 will be hardlinked against pkgs in 4.0 ( please check your rsync lines, make sure there is an -H option there ). Further, once the 4.1 iso's are available on the mirrors, iso's for 4.0 will be removed from the mirrors right away. They will still be available on BitTorrent for an over-lap period of 14 days, should anyone need them. Once this 14 day over-lap is over, the entire 4.0 tree will be removed from the mirrors and /centos/4/ will be pointing at /centos/4.1/ Thank you all, once again, for hosting mirrors for the CentOS Project. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ GnuPG Public Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

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Versaweb Mirror Back Online
by Rob Tyree 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

Hello, I sent this message in a few days ago, however I haven't seen it ever come up on the digest. The Versaweb Hosting CentOS mirror is back online and available for public use. The info is as follows: Organization: Versaweb Hosting - http://www.versaweb.net <http://www.versaweb.net/> http://mirrors.versaweb.net/centos/ ftp://mirrors.versaweb.net/centos/ Location: San Jose, CA USA Port Speed: 100mbit We are syncing 4 times per day from the US master server. Our mirror is running CentOS 4.0 X86_64 as well :-) Thanks, and everyone keep up the good work! -- Rob Tyree

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New Mirror USA
by Brian W. Gemberling 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

Hello, We have setup a CentOS mirror, information follows below. City: Ashburn, VA Country: USA Bandwidth: 1000Mbit/s Updates: 4 times a day Mirror URL: ftp://ftp.ptptech.com/pub/CentOS

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Welcome to the new CentOS-mirror mailing list.
by lance＠uklinux.net 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

As you will have read in a recent post, the CentOS mirror system is separating from cAos so as to be an independent project in its own right. There will be more information regarding how to change the mirror setup and where to sync from shortly, however for now we are creating new mailing lists. If you were subscribed to the caos-mirror mailing list then you will jave been subscribed to this list automatically. (If not - apologies). The options you subscribed with should be maintained - although your password will have changed. If you want to know the password that has been set in order to login and change options then you can have it emailled to you here :- http://lists.centos.org/mailman/options/centos-mirror Regards Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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RE: [CentOS-mirror] centos mirror disk space requirements
by Sydney Bogaert 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

I already replied to this kind of question : simply do a dry run with rsync with the verbose option. The last numbers give the total size of what would have been tranferred. man rync : -n, --dry-run show what would have been transferred -----Message d'origine----- De : centos-mirror-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org]De la part de Jason Boles Envoyé : mardi 26 avril 2005 22:55 À : centos-mirror(a)centos.org Objet : [CentOS-mirror] centos mirror disk space requirements Hello all, I'm interested in setting up a mirror, however I couldn't find the total size of everything (without downloading it). Could someone reply with the sizes of the 3.4 and 4.0 subdirectories ? should be as simple as " find /path/to/mirror/centos -type d -exec du -shS {} \; " Also, how can I search the archives of this mailing list ? (I would like to know preferred cron method for rsync, and howto configure yum to point to my mirror) thanks, -Jason _______________________________________________ CentOS-mirror mailing list CentOS-mirror(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror

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Versaweb Mirror Back Online
by Rob Tyree 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hello, Versaweb's CentOS mirror is back online and available for public use - please add it back on to the mirrors list. We have upgraded to a brand new server to make the mirror considerably faster and more reliable, and as a result it should handle a greater number of simultaneous users now as well. Country: US City: San Jose, CA http://mirrors.versaweb.net/centos/ ftp://mirrors.versaweb.net/centos/ Bandwidth: 100mbit/s Organization: Versaweb Hosting - http://www.versaweb.net We are sync'ing every 6 hours from the US master server. -- Rob Tyree Versaweb Hosting

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RE: [CentOS-mirror] FrontPage Extensions
by Bob Pierce 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Sorry everyone... My mistake. -----Original Message----- From: centos-mirror-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Lance Davis Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 7:27 PM To: Mailing list for CentOS mirrors. Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] FrontPage Extensions On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Bob Pierce wrote: > Has anyone had success getting FrontPage extensions to work with > Centos-4. This is not the right list. Try centos(a)centos.org This one is for mirroring issues. Lance > > I've been trying to set up a virtual hosting server with front page > support. > > I found this page to help getting around the selinux problems: > http://www.rtr.com/fp2002disc/_disc2/00000be5.htm > > but each problem I overcome I keep hitting another... > > Just wondering if anyone's had success with this on Centos-4 or if > you've found any good tips to share. > > Thanks for your help, > Bob Pierce. > -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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Mirror for UCr
by barai＠cs.ucr.edu 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Can you please add 138.23.169.46 to the list of available mirrors for t3 or faster? We ave resolved our routing issues. Also, our access to the main mirror needs to be resolved as well. Thanks. Benjamin

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by Andres Lippur 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Hi! I have set up a new mirror, please add to mirror list. Country: Estonia City: Tallinn Organization: siiludus.com URL's: http://ftp.siiludus.com/pub/centos/ ftp://ftp.siiludus.com/pub/centos/ rsync://rsync.siiludus.com::centos/ Bandwith: 100Mbit/s Syncing hourly from eu-msync.centos.org::CentOS. Best Regards, Andres Lippur

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