Speaking to these issues first (since I'm finally looping back around on things) Karanbir Singh wrote: > Hey, > > J.H. wrote: >> I was just looking to try and get access to rsync on vault.centos.org >> and get a full, and semi regular (maybe once a week) sync going from it. >> Anyone know how to access that (not sure of the module name), and I >> would hate to abuse the thing by running wget against the website :-/ > > There isnt any rsync module for vault... perhaps we should create one. > Would you be ok to host a vhost config for it at your end ? that way we > can keep it away from the main tree, and include your mirror into the > rrdns cycle at this end. I've got a full copy of vault now, and have the whole thing up and online now. Serving a vhost specifically is probably not high on my priority list (I already chew up a lot of IPs as it is and don't tend to do name based because of rsync/ftp issues). I would have no objection to having the site in RRDNS or a redirect or something if that was the case. > > Would you also be interested in older DVD's isos ? ( that might be a bit > more tricky to get up ). Possibly, though I'll admit things like DVD ISOs would be first on my chopping block to kill if I ever run out of space and can't get more storage. For the time being I'm flush with space for this project and I don't think adding the DVD ISOs are going to break my bank (I can put them in a separate location if that helps any) > Finally, it would be nice if vault wasent too visible. After all, the > only packages in vault are things that are now deprecated due to > bugfix/security/enhancement updates While I applaud the "it's been deprecated people should use the latest" approach, it's correct and it's the right choice - real life doesn't always work that way and there are points where having to maintain something at a specific version is required (part of the reason I embarked on my latest project). So I'm not going to hide the archive project I've got going here, in fact I fully plan to promote it and make a few things simple with regards to it (Example: want to install Red Hat 5.0, great here's the pre-setup network installer have fun is something I'm planning on implementing - do I think it's going to get a lot of use? No. Is it rather trivial at this point? Yes. So no real harm done for the few crazies who want a 10yr old distro). That said I more or less flipped this "live" overnight but archive.kernel.org is now up and serving bits, specific to CentOS is: http://archive.kernel.org/centos-vault/ ftp://archive.kernel.org/centos-vault/ rsync://archive.kernel.org/centos-vault/ I'm only syncing from my upstream about once a week, so I would *GREATLY* appreciate it if someone is mirroring from me to not mirror more often then once a week as well. - John 'Warthog9' Hawley Chief Kernel.org Administrator