Thank you. We have setted up our mirror tree. ftp://ftp2.tnc.edu.tw/pub1/caos ftp://ftp2.tnc.edu.tw/pub1/centos http://ftp2.tnc.edu.tw/pub1/caos/ http://ftp2.tnc.edu.tw/pub1/centos/ Regards OLS3 On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:59:38 +0100 (BST), Lance Davis wrote > We sent out notification of changes to mirroring on 30th March and > you dont seem to have implemennted the changes yet. > > Please let me know if there is a problem, or make the changes as > soon as possible so that we can close off the old system. > > Thanks > > Regards > Lance > > -- > uklinux.net - > The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:42:11 +0100 (BST) > From: Lance Davis <lance at uklinux.net> > Reply-To: Mailing list for CentOS mirrors. <centos-mirror at centos.org> > To: centos-mirror at centos.org > Cc: caos-mirror at caosity.org > Subject: [CentOS-mirror] Mirror Changes - Important > > Due to the split of mirrors with cAos , it will be necessary for > mirrors to make some changes to the way that they mirror the CentOS > tree, as moving forward it will no longer be a part of the caosity tree. > > Firstly mirrors need to decide whether they are mirroring CentOS or > cAos or both. They are distinct operating systems, CentOS is a > rebuild of Enterprise Linux , whereas cAos is an rpm based > distribution in its own right. > > For more information see www.centos.org or caos.caosity.org > > At present both trees are mirrored with a single rsync of > mirror.caosity.org::cAos - moving forward two rsyncs will be needed :- > > mirror.caosity.org::caosity that will get the caos tree > > and > > msync.centos.org::CentOS that will get the CentOS tree > > Please note that at present CentOS will be listed and stored within > the cAos tree, this should not be the case in the future - CentOS > should never be stored or listed as a part of cAos or caosity. > > Mirror Changes > -------------- > > In order to achieve the changes required with minimum download > bandwidth the following steps should be carried out. (Note that > individual circumstances may vary - if in doubt do nothing and ask) . > > 1. Stop cron based rsync job from syncing > > 2. Move the CentOS tree to its new location, which should be at the > root of the publically served tree. > > This can either be achieved with 'mv' or if you want a 2nd chance > at it 'cp -al' which will create a hardlinked copy of the tree > (as long as it is on the same partition) > > eg with directory structure /pub > /pub/caos > /pub/caos/centos > > cp -al /pub/caos/centos /pub/ > or > mv /pub/caos/centos /pub > > to end up with /pub/ > /pub/caos > /pub/centos > (and /pub/caos/centos/ if using cp -al) > > 3. Create a new rsync cron job to sync the CentOS tree (if required) > . This should be something like :- > > rsync -aqzH --delete msync.centos.org::CentOS /pub/ > > *** note the change to msync.centos.org *** mirror.centos.org is > deprecated for rsync use - to allow us to use different servers > for yum mirrors. > > please use rsync -anvzH --delete msync.centos.org::CentOS /pub/ > first to test that the command will do the right thing ('n' is > dry run and will just show what wil be transferred - which in > theory should be very little - if it says 40 GB + then the > command is wrong !!) > > Note that due to the way that rsync works any updates will only be > written to this new tree and not the hardlinked tree left behind if > using cp -al above ( that can be deleted once you are happy with the > new location working). > > 4. Create a new rsync cron job to sync the cAos tree (if required). > This should be something like :- > > rsync -aqzH --delete mirror.caosity.org::caosity /pub/ > > *** note the change to ::caosity - ::cAos will still sync both > trees for mirrors that havent restructured yet. > *** > > This will also delete the CentOS tree left underneath the caos > tree above. > > You should now have both trees in the correct places. > > 5. Please email the list to say that you have restructured your > mirror and what the new urls will be for public use. We will update > the databases to reflect these new locations. > > 6. It is not necessary to mirror all of centos if you do not wish to > - eg you can choose whether to carry 2.1 , 3.3, 3.4, 4.0 - but > please note in the email any trees that you will not be carrying and > we will note that in the database. > > 7. In the very near future we will be restricting access to > msync.centos.org to publically listed mirrors only - we have to > establiush a way for new mirrors to sync first though. > > 8. We will be tracking which mirrors have/havent restructured and > will contact individual mirrors accordingly. > > There is now an irc channel - #centos-mirror > on irc.freenode.net where mirroring discussions may be held. > > Lance > > -- > uklinux.net - > The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror --