[CentOS-mirror] private mirror question(s)

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

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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>> - --
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>> Fabian Arrotin
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