For us, this is too much work... we have a lot of mirrors here and we also have a lot of servers to look after. I realize it's a "small thing to do" but we mirror many sites because it's a "set it up and forget about it" thing pretty much... we are happy to contribute to the world at large but if it's not completely automated then we won't do it ....
;)
Paul
-----Original Message----- From: centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Prof. P. Sriram Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 5:21 AM To: Mailing list for CentOS mirrors. Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] 5.6 is coming closer
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Adam wrote:
As a reminder to old mirrors and tip for new mirrors now might be a
good
time to remove the "--delete" flags from your rsync scripts in order
to
protect the 5.6 tree in the event you stumble upon a mirror that
doesn't
have it after you have already download it.
Maybe it's been discussed before, but would it not be worthwhile to do a
DNS based thing for this? We create a temporary rsync source domain (instead of us-msync.centos.org, say, we do a temp.us-msync.centos.org),
add machines from the 'permanent' domain into this temporary domain as and when they finish their sync of the new content and let downstream mirrors do the sync from this temp domain instead of the usual (permanent) domain. Once we have release (or all the upstreamers are synced up), we ask the downstream mirrors to go back to mirroring from the old permanent domains. Downstream mirrors could choose not to do this if they feel so for whatever reason. For those who choose to go along with this, it would entail one change of upstream server when we start and one more change to revert this when release is up.