[WBEL-users] Mirror list - yet another mirror (Europe)

[Kay Diederichs]

Johannes Puschmann wrote:
> christian.huegel@fedoraforum.de wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> is there a "worldwide" Mirror list aviable for WBEL? The mirrors on 
>> the WBEL-site are all from US or New-Zeeland. 
> 
> 
> Not really.
> GDS (Goodie Domain Service)is located in Austria/Vienna, Belnet is from 
> Belgium.
> 
>  > I´m asking because its easyer
> 
>> to get an overview about the mirrors out there and easyier to  manage 
>> my yum.conf especially for people in Europe like me. Two examples 
>> about what i´m talking about can be found here [1] and here [2].
>>
>>
>> [1] http://andrew.triumf.ca/pub/linux/redhat-mirror2.html
>> [2] http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html
> 
> 
> [1] is nice.
> When i find the time, i will try to implement it on one of my 
> company-servers.
> 
> Regards
> Pusch
> l

I'm in Germany, but found gd.tuwien.ac.at to be very slow (on the order of 
20kB/sec) for my purposes - keeping about 15-20 Whitebox Linux clients up and 
running.

I have my own Whitebox mirror which anybody is welcome to use. Its Internet 
connection (University of Konstanz) is fast (> 1MB/sec). I mirror ncsu.edu with

rsync -av mirror.physics.ncsu.edu::whitebox/3.0/en/ ~ftp/whitebox/3.0/en/ \ 
--exclude=SRPMS --exclude=obsolete-updates --exclude=liberation-\*.iso \ 
--include=liberation-respin\*.iso

so I exclude the old .iso files and all the SRPMs and obsolete stuff.

To use it (sorry, currently no rsync or http service), put the following into 
/etc/yum.conf :

[base]
name=White Box Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=ftp://turn5.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/whitebox/$releasever/en/os/$basearch

[updates-released]
name=White Box Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
baseurl=ftp://turn5.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/whitebox/$releasever/en/updates/

Of course I cannot make promises concerning long-time availability; my plan is 
to keep this service as long as Whitebox serves my needs which it has been doing 
nicely since it became available.

Kay