[CentOS-devel] setting up an emergency update route

On 02/05/2015 10:37 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> On 02/05/2015 11:32 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> ofcourse - all this is orthogonal to the 'urgent updates' repo. We need
>> to solve and find a better way to get content out for the entire tree's
>> - but do we need to have that in place before we do this 'urgent
>> updates' repo ? Can we not just have that run from mirror.centos.org (
>> that has a 10 min update delta .. ), while we workout what the larger
>> solution might be ?
>>
> how about
> - setup (server side ) an additional
> "centos-urgent-packages-that-should-have-been-installed-yesterday" repo
> - set mirrormanager to provide mirror.c.o exclusively as source for
> those packages
> - push an updated centos-release with the above repo default enabled
> -hardlink the packages to centos-updates where from they will be
> eventually be mirrored by all the 2nd and 3rd tier mirrors
> 
> Eventually after "should have been installed yesterday' changes into
> "last-week's-content"- one can delete the content of this repo, since
> the content would have been made available a long time ago via the
> regular updates channel.
> 

This is pretty much Scenario A in my original email, we use mirror.c.o
to deliver the content real-quick, and if the updates repo has higher
precidence, when the same rpms show up in there ( 8+ hrs later or
wheverver ) people will get it from there instead.


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