[CentOS-devel] setting up an emergency update route

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 3 februarie 2015 20:59:39 EET, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 3 February 2015 at 07:56, Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote:
>
>> How about a variation on A:
>> - ask some of the main mirrors for push access, put those in order
>and
>> make a new [centos-security] repo with a mirrorlist pointing just at
>them.
>>
>> Lucian
>>
>
>Speaking from working on the Red Hat/Fedora side of mirroring for a
>while... mirrors do not like to be pushed to. They also do not like
>having
>to run software that would initiate a pull if notified of new content.
>For
>most of them, this is a spare time, feel good item. They have no time
>and
>usually have to spend a good portion of the year explaining to their
>bosses
>why they even have a mirror to the internet since that costs someone a
>lot
>of money somewhere. So anything which adds to that workload is a minus.

With my mirror admin hat on, even if we do not accept pushes/notifications we'll gladly poll any designated upstream mirror with any frequency considered suitable by you . And we'll also host any additional repo (if needed) with any (decent) size. The Debian mirror is already larger. Much larger :)