Evening all,
I was just looking to try and get access to rsync on vault.centos.org and get a full, and semi regular (maybe once a week) sync going from it. Anyone know how to access that (not sure of the module name), and I would hate to abuse the thing by running wget against the website :-/
Thanks!
- John 'Warthog9' Hawley Chief Kernel.org Administrator
Hey,
J.H. wrote:
I was just looking to try and get access to rsync on vault.centos.org and get a full, and semi regular (maybe once a week) sync going from it. Anyone know how to access that (not sure of the module name), and I would hate to abuse the thing by running wget against the website :-/
There isnt any rsync module for vault... perhaps we should create one. Would you be ok to host a vhost config for it at your end ? that way we can keep it away from the main tree, and include your mirror into the rrdns cycle at this end.
Would you also be interested in older DVD's isos ? ( that might be a bit more tricky to get up ).
Finally, it would be nice if vault wasent too visible. After all, the only packages in vault are things that are now deprecated due to bugfix/security/enhancement updates
- KB
On Monday 06 April 2009, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Hey,
J.H. wrote:
I was just looking to try and get access to rsync on vault.centos.org and get a full, and semi regular (maybe once a week) sync going from it. Anyone know how to access that (not sure of the module name), and I would hate to abuse the thing by running wget against the website :-/
There isnt any rsync module for vault... perhaps we should create one. Would you be ok to host a vhost config for it at your end ? that way we can keep it away from the main tree, and include your mirror into the rrdns cycle at this end.
mirror.nsc.liu.se, which has mirrored debuginfo for a long time, would also be ok with a vhost config/rrdns for debuginfo.
/Peter
Speaking to these issues first (since I'm finally looping back around on things)
Karanbir Singh wrote:
Hey,
J.H. wrote:
I was just looking to try and get access to rsync on vault.centos.org and get a full, and semi regular (maybe once a week) sync going from it. Anyone know how to access that (not sure of the module name), and I would hate to abuse the thing by running wget against the website :-/
There isnt any rsync module for vault... perhaps we should create one. Would you be ok to host a vhost config for it at your end ? that way we can keep it away from the main tree, and include your mirror into the rrdns cycle at this end.
I've got a full copy of vault now, and have the whole thing up and online now. Serving a vhost specifically is probably not high on my priority list (I already chew up a lot of IPs as it is and don't tend to do name based because of rsync/ftp issues). I would have no objection to having the site in RRDNS or a redirect or something if that was the case.
Would you also be interested in older DVD's isos ? ( that might be a bit more tricky to get up ).
Possibly, though I'll admit things like DVD ISOs would be first on my chopping block to kill if I ever run out of space and can't get more storage. For the time being I'm flush with space for this project and I don't think adding the DVD ISOs are going to break my bank (I can put them in a separate location if that helps any)
Finally, it would be nice if vault wasent too visible. After all, the only packages in vault are things that are now deprecated due to bugfix/security/enhancement updates
While I applaud the "it's been deprecated people should use the latest" approach, it's correct and it's the right choice - real life doesn't always work that way and there are points where having to maintain something at a specific version is required (part of the reason I embarked on my latest project).
So I'm not going to hide the archive project I've got going here, in fact I fully plan to promote it and make a few things simple with regards to it (Example: want to install Red Hat 5.0, great here's the pre-setup network installer have fun is something I'm planning on implementing - do I think it's going to get a lot of use? No. Is it rather trivial at this point? Yes. So no real harm done for the few crazies who want a 10yr old distro).
That said I more or less flipped this "live" overnight but archive.kernel.org is now up and serving bits, specific to CentOS is:
http://archive.kernel.org/centos-vault/ ftp://archive.kernel.org/centos-vault/ rsync://archive.kernel.org/centos-vault/
I'm only syncing from my upstream about once a week, so I would *GREATLY* appreciate it if someone is mirroring from me to not mirror more often then once a week as well.
- John 'Warthog9' Hawley Chief Kernel.org Administrator
On Wednesday 29 April 2009, J.H. wrote:
Speaking to these issues first (since I'm finally looping back around on things)
Karanbir Singh wrote:
Hey,
J.H. wrote:
I was just looking to try and get access to rsync on vault.centos.org and get a full, and semi regular (maybe once a week) sync going from it. Anyone know how to access that (not sure of the module name), and I would hate to abuse the thing by running wget against the website :-/
There isnt any rsync module for vault... perhaps we should create one. Would you be ok to host a vhost config for it at your end ? that way we can keep it away from the main tree, and include your mirror into the rrdns cycle at this end.
I've got a full copy of vault now, and have the whole thing up and online now. Serving a vhost specifically is probably not high on my priority list (I already chew up a lot of IPs as it is and don't tend to do name based because of rsync/ftp issues). I would have no objection to having the site in RRDNS or a redirect or something if that was the case.
Would you also be interested in older DVD's isos ? ( that might be a bit more tricky to get up ).
Possibly, though I'll admit things like DVD ISOs would be first on my chopping block to kill if I ever run out of space and can't get more storage. For the time being I'm flush with space for this project and I don't think adding the DVD ISOs are going to break my bank (I can put them in a separate location if that helps any)
Finally, it would be nice if vault wasent too visible. After all, the only packages in vault are things that are now deprecated due to bugfix/security/enhancement updates
While I applaud the "it's been deprecated people should use the latest" approach, it's correct and it's the right choice - real life doesn't always work that way and there are points where having to maintain something at a specific version is required (part of the reason I embarked on my latest project).
So I'm not going to hide the archive project I've got going here
We don't plan on hiding vault either. It will be at MIRROR_ROOT/ for those who look for it.
, in fact I fully plan to promote it and make a few things simple with regards to it (Example: want to install Red Hat 5.0, great here's the pre-setup network installer have fun is something I'm planning on implementing - do I think it's going to get a lot of use? No. Is it rather trivial at this point? Yes. So no real harm done for the few crazies who want a 10yr old distro).
That said I more or less flipped this "live" overnight but archive.kernel.org is now up and serving bits, specific to CentOS is:
http://archive.kernel.org/centos-vault/ ftp://archive.kernel.org/centos-vault/ rsync://archive.kernel.org/centos-vault/
We've been mirroring vault for quite some time and also include debuginfo. Before vault was store+debuginfo and those names live on:
ftp,http://mirror.nsc.liu.se/centos-store ftp,http://mirror.nsc.liu.se/centos-debuginfo rsync://mirror.nsc.liu.se::centos-store rsync://mirror.nsc.liu.se::centos-debuginfo
I guess we could rename store->vault since I don't think too many depend on that path.
/Peter
I'm only syncing from my upstream about once a week, so I would *GREATLY* appreciate it if someone is mirroring from me to not mirror more often then once a week as well.
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J.H. -
Karanbir Singh -
Peter Kjellstrom