On Wed, October 14, 2015 11:39 am, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 14/10/15 12:47, Jarek Polok wrote: >> I understand this concern but since all official mirror owners are >> on this mailing list perhaps it would be sufficient to inform everybody >> about it few weeks/months in advance ? (and update howto at >> https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CreatePublicMirrors accordingly..) > > right, I appreciate that - however, the goto release for aarch64 > happened very quickly, we had literally 2 days to workout the entire > process and so took the safest option that gives us the most > expandability down the road. > >> >> (also: isn't RH going to release 7.X for aarch64 in the future ? .. >> in that case would CentOS 7 for aarch64 be in same place as x86_64 or >> in altarch ?) > > if they do, when they do, then if we have a clear downstream build, that > would end up in /centos/ space, till then ( and maybe beyond ) we would > keep the altarch/ space going for this. And IMHO this is the wisest decision to keep anything that is not from upstream in a separate tree. Valeri > > There is an ongoing conversation about what makes a SIG content be > CentOS Linux branded and what makes it CentOS AltArch Branded, and > hopefully in the coming months we can get a tangible plan in place to > facilitate migration. This is also why I've tried to stay away from the > idea of a secondary arch or a primary arch. Every build should be able > to flourish on its own merits, we just need to communicate to the user > base what that implies. > > >>> The plan is to open rsync for these targets as wide as possible, to >>> allow anyone wanting to opt into these to grab it from us. In the mean >>> time we still need to workout how mirrorlist.centos.org is going to >>> handle these, and how other SIGs are able to consume and extend this >>> content. >>> >> >> Ok, so for now the only way to mirror the i686 altarch tree >> is to get it over http at: http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/ ? >> >> (we are using these 32bit packages in our internal build >> system, so far we mirror from buildlogs.centos.org .. >> which is not very practical ..) >> > > we should have these on rsync in the coming days. Likely tomorrow. > > -- > Karanbir Singh > +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh > GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++