[CentOS-devel] setting up an emergency update route

+1 what wolfy said

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Manuel Wolfshant" <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>
> To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." <centos-devel at centos.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, 3 February, 2015 19:08:39
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] setting up an emergency update route

> 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 :)
> 
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