[CentOS-mirror] time to remove our mirror

[Anssi Johansson]

17.7.2015, 18.46, Emil kirjoitti:
> Hi!
>
> As hinted about a year ago  ftp.sunet.se  is shutting down, and
> now it is time remove us from any mirror list.
>
> I'm not familiar with the centos "infra structure system", will it
> take effect as soon as the list is updated or will existing users
> suffer unless I put a redirect in apache?

Hi, I too thank you for the service you have provided over the years. 
Living in Finland, your mirror has been a nearby mirror for quite a few 
things I have needed.

I believe Fabian is currently travelling and he's the guy who can remove 
your mirror from the list. To speed up the process a bit, I would 
suggest removing the files TIME and timestamp.txt from your mirror and 
stop syncing from msync.c.o (or amend your mirroring script to remove 
those files after syncing). The mirror checker will notice that your 
mirror is not up to date and will not include your mirror on the list 
any more.

I have some control over the IPv6 mirrorlist output, so I have already 
removed your mirror from that list.

yum may cache metadata for a few days, perhaps for around a week. 
Therefore you will get requests even after your mirror has been removed 
from the list. This is not particularly fatal, though. If yum is unable 
to download something from your mirror, it will move on to downloading 
that file from some other mirror. I think it would be unnecessary to set 
up redirects. Obviously if someone has hardcoded their system to use 
your mirror (with a baseurl=http://ftp.sunet.se/...), they will need to 
reconfigure their repository configuration.