[WBEL-devel] Re: Ideas for improving availability

[John Morris]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Jon Lewis wrote:

> Both the 'home site' (www.whiteboxlinux.org) and NCSU seem to have their
> 3.0/en/os/i386 directories based on the original release.  Before noticing
> this, I chose to base mine on the liberation-respin1 iso files.  I don't
> know if thats going to cause problems for anyone.  I don't expect it
> would, but AFAIK, all my installs were done from respin1, so I don't have
> a good/easy way to test this.

So long as you have no original 3.0 installs and don't plan to make it a 
public mirror there won't be any problems.  I didn't update the tree 
because I wasn't sure what would happen if someone installed from a set of 
3.0 media and tried to get current.  In theory any dependencies should be 
satisfied by newer packages but didn't want to find out.  Since any 
package that differs from 3.0 is in the errata directory it isn't all that 
important either way.

> For some reason both the home site and NCSU lack pretty much all the files
> from the first iso which would normally be in 3.0/en/os/i386/dosutils.  I
> copied those files from the iso into my mirror.

Known issue, the 3.0 CD set had them missing, they were lost somewhere
between RC2 and the 3.0 release and are back for the respin.  Really
should go drop them back into the online tree though.

> 
> At the moment, I have it setup to rsync updates from NCSU every 2 hours.
> I see no reason to run rsync against the distribution files, since it
> appears they never change.

Which is a good argument for keeping the updates out of the original tree, 
all that comparing during rsync is expensive, better to just do what you 
did and ignore it after the first pull.

> > Is there a consensus as to which way would be best?
> 
> Does consensus matter?  Isn't this your show? :)

To an extent, but the first step to wisdom is to realize how much ya don't
know.  Many has been the time I have been educated by the collected wisdom
hanging out on this list in the last year.

> Is this sort of mirror talk more appropriate on the devel list?  Should
> there be a mirror list?

I can see a need for that.

> BTW, my plan for whitebox.atlantic.net is to use it internally for our
> growing number of WBEL servers, and to make it publicly available,
> probably rate-limited to some small multiple of 10mbit/s, which may vary
> according to how full our transit pipes are at any given time.

When you are ready for outside traffic, drop a note.

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