Pekka Savola wrote:
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Johnny Hughes wrote:
We currently have the top directory (5.1) set to 700 permissions. This should allow you to download as your "rsync" user now, but it will probably not be browseable on your web/ftp server.
We will change the permissions to 775 on the 5.1 directory as we get more than 50% of the external mirrors with the 5.1 tree completed.
How do you know when you've reached 50% if those sites have perms set to 700? Or what is the definition of 'external mirrors' here? Or maybe the assumption is that CentOS mirrors who have already synced set the permissions to 775, and temporarily disable syncing of 5.1?
-ps
Well .. we have this page:
http://mirror-status.centos.org/
What will happen is that mirrors will move to the right on the top graph as they start syncing ... until they get finished ... then they will move back to the left. (This is based on a TIME file that is one of the last to sync).
So we should see a shift to the right, then back to the left, of all the mirrors that are actively syncing.
Once we see that, probably in 24-48 hours, and once our outbound bandwidth starts going down on our msync / msync-dvd mirrors, we will change the permissions .. and then you guys will pick it up on your next rsync.
The definition of "External Public Mirrors" are the ones listed in our database that are NOT .centos.org machines ... currently all those on the above status page. We also have 15 servers that are "Internal" CentOS Mirrors that we use to sync to the External Public Mirrors.
Also, the reason we want to wait until we get 50% of the mirrors (at a minumum) before we change permissions to 755 is so that we get several mirrors with a complete filesets, because we have a roundrobin script that sets our ISOLISTS and MIRRORLISTS for 5.1 ... and once we change permissions, our script will pick up the machines, and start directing new yum updates to do the 5.1 update set. We would like there to be enough mirrors on line with 5.1 so that we can handle the load for all the users who will be upgrading.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes