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! > > > > > -- > *Gene Liverman* > Systems Administrator > Information Technology Services > University of West Georgia > gliverma at westga.edu > > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> 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/ >> >> >> - -- >> >> Fabian Arrotin >> The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org >> gpg key: 56BEC54E | twitter: @arrfab >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAlRXumMACgkQnVkHo1a+xU7FLwCdG+f/Pb+JCO/6VD1SHPyOiJ5j >> y58AnAk6NsepvPq4nDyyMSBa/d8KWZU7 >> =qYie >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-mirror mailing list >> CentOS-mirror at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror >> > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/attachments/20141103/54e26fbc/attachment-0006.html>