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On 14/04/15 17:54, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
Is there a need for additional mirrors of the vault? I have enough space to mirror it if there's a need, but I know access to it is restricted. (I've managed to pull in a local copy by pulling from the existing mirrors.)
- J<
Well, that's a good-and-not-so-easy-to-answer question :-) Actually we have 6 nodes behind vault.centos.org, but two will have to be removed soon (basically lack of disk space when the next release will have to land there). There are also 4 non centos.org nodes that are actually fetching vault content , and those have better bandwidth/machines that we do (reminder : we're using community donated dedicated servers).
I can't speak for those external mirrors, and I have zero view on their bandwidth usage/stats for vault content.
OTOH, I (personally) think that vault is like giving a gun for people to shoot themselves in the foot : using deprecated/unpatched/unsecured/unmaintained packages on a distro is not what I'd consider best practice. There are a *few* corner cases where it can be handy, but those are already mirroring internally those versions, for specific usage, and don't rely on vault.centos.org
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Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org gpg key: 56BEC54E | twitter: @arrfab