[CentOS-mirror] private mirror question(s)

Ryan Becker

Ryan at techbnc.org
Mon Nov 3 19:09:08 UTC 2014


I'd be willing to take on this project if there was enough interest in it.
Plenty of people on this list seem to support it.
On Nov 3, 2014 2:01 PM, "Gene Liverman" <gliverma at westga.edu> wrote:

> Fabian,
>
> There was some talk several months ago about someone maybe setting up
> Mirror Manager for CentOS as a replacement for the current system... did
> anything ever come of that? It seems to work very well for Fedora so I
> can't help but be curious. Thanks!
>
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> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wrote:
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>> On 03/11/14 18:14, Chad Feller wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I currently mirror CentOS, Fedora, and Fedora-EPEL at my
>> > university. For the Fedora side of things, I registered with their
>> > mirror manager system, checked it as a private mirror, gave it our
>> > netblock, and ASN, and people at our university are automatically
>> > routed to it.
>> >
>> > Unless I'm missing something, for CentOS it is a little harder.
>> > There doesn't seem to be a mirror manager like system available,
>> > and everything is manually updated via this mailing list.  For
>> > systems managed by me, this hasn't been a problem as I use Puppet
>> > to push out a custom CentOS-Base.repo file.  But for everyone else
>> > on campus, they can only use the mirror if a), then know about it,
>> > and b) if they feel like editing their CentOS-base file.  If they
>> > were automatically directed to it, as they are with Fedora, that
>> > would be ideal.
>>
>> Other option (transparent for such users) is to redirect
>> mirrorlist.centos.org to an internal machine, and answering with just
>> your internal mirror.
>>
>> >
>> > I would just make it a public mirror, but there is some university
>> >  politics about opening it up to the outside world as we have to
>> > pay for our bandwidth.
>> >
>> > So my questions are as follows:
>> >
>> > 1) Is there anything in place to register a private mirror with the
>> >  CentOS mirroring infrastructure?
>>
>> No, and the current mirrorlist process would need access to also list
>> such mirror in the currently "tested" mirrors list. So that will not
>> work in your case.
>>
>> >
>> > 2) Is there a way I can be allowed to sync from
>> > us-msync.centos.org?  I was able to sync from it for well over a
>> > year until it was shut off a few months back preceding the release
>> > of CentOS 7.  (I'm currently having to sync from a second tier
>> > mirror.)
>>
>> No, and the reason was explained in the past : we obviously want
>> faster releases to public mirrors, as themselves will be used to serve
>> CentOS trees/updates/isos to the outside world. So your option is to
>> do what you're doing right now : fetching from a public mirror listed
>> on http://centos.org/download/mirrors/
>>
>>
>> - --
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>> Fabian Arrotin
>> The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org
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