On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:24:36PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Matt Domsch wrote: > > >I'm working on it... :-) > > > >We don't force everyone to carry everything. Most folks don't carry > >Extras right now. Most folks carry only i386 and x86_64. A few only > >carry updates. And *everyone* uses a different URL to get to their > >content. Maintaining it manually is impossible anymore - hence the > >need for some software. > > > >See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/MirrorManagement for > >what I've got in mind, a little of which already works. > > > > Thanks. The original mail was send by me long back before I subscribed > to this list and has been struck on the moderation queue for a while I > guess. I did find this page and added a note on source packages. It > would very useful if the individual mirrors had a note clearly marking > the type of access (http/ftp/rynsc), repositories (core/extras), > architecture, source and binary packages and other details so users can > quickly understand which mirror carry the content they want and how to > access them. Absolutely. And GeoIP, and ... The current mirror list is a mess. There are folks on it that aren't mirrors anymore. Some of the URLs are wrong. I bet it's missing some mirrors too. It really only lists Core, not Extras or anything else. When a release happens, everyone manually sends a "I'm synced" message which someone has to collect and include in the release announcement. All in all, a good opportunity for some nice software. Turns out, Debian's got something, though I haven't found the source for it yet. But they do a lot of what we would want, plus ftp.<country>.debian.org DNS maintenance which we don't have to do right now because we're using GeoIP to build the per-country yum lists. -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com
