[CentOS-devel] a snapshotted, delayed mirror

[Karanbir Singh]

Hi,

One of the corner case challenges that I have on the builders that do
the chained instance, images, media builds is that they consume an
internal mirror - but a generic mirror. i.e updates during the day can
result in the images that are built later to end up with different
content ( for the ones that consume the updates/ repo etc )

To work around this, I'm proposing running a mirror closer to the
image-buildsys machine, that only updates at midnight UTC, and will
represent the state of play on the calendar date before the timestamped
images. eg. the CentOS-7-x86_64-Generic-2014_08_26.qcow2 image will
contain updates upto and including all content released till the 25th
midnight.

Its likely easier to make this private. But is there value in having
this be public ? its only going to be a single node ?

Also, longer term we might need / want to chain this from
ci.dev.centos.org runs, so we only include content thats been through
the ci process.

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