+1 what wolfy said -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- 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 :) > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel