Hello Karanbir Singh, On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:53:27AM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Florian La Roche wrote: > >> * look for a mirror that has debuginfo (sometimes it stops here with debuginfo > >> for the kernel missing) > > I just add http://debuginfo.centos.org/$releasever/$basearch/ as a new repo into > > all CentOS installs. Disabled by default, but prepared to download rpms from if > > I need to. > > With things setup the way they are - network distance from debuginfo to > the head-node is ~ 400KiB/sec which means that sometimes it takes a very > long time to sync the debuginfo's into the right place. eg. the sync for > 5.3 started on Sat morning, its about 35% of the way through. > > Something to definitely consider / reconsider. > > >> * download manually > >> * install manually (including ignoring the fact that debuginfo packages are > >> unsigned...) > > > > Hope this can be changed, but no idea where in the process this needs to be. > > Change which part ? signing them or automating something ? The reason > debuginfo's are not signed is that bringing them into a securebox for > the signing process and pushing them out again easily triples the time > factor. Ok, thanks for the info. > > > I think it is very good to keep the debuginfo separate from the rest of the > > mirror system to not overload mirrors. Question will be on how that scales > > with more and more people accessing debuginfo.centos.org. > > At the moment, there are 2 internal and 1 external mirror for debuginfo > - that can be increased if required. I know that atleast mirrorservice > and kernel.org have previously said that they will make more space > available to centos.org if we need it on their mirrors - and they are > happy to host vhost's for debuginfo / beta's. Then maybe with an official upstream there could be an official mirrorlist repo with something like "repo=debuginfo". Maybe also older CentOS releases could be archived in a similar fashion and get some official location as well. regards, Florian La Roche