[Gllug] CentOS and RHES

[Alain Williams]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:31:30AM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Alain Williams wrote:
> >Part of the problem is that mirrors are updated with rsync, files are 
> >copied to the
> >mirrors one by one. This means that if someone like me then updates *my* 
> >mirror, also by
> >rsync, (which I then serve up to my home machines) then I risk not syncing 
> >up files
> >which are being copied to the mirror.
> 
> Mirrors within the centos.org rrdns run with the --delay-updates option. 
> You wont see pkgs in there untill the entire tree is rsync'ed.

Thanks for that & for the work that you put into centos.
Could I suggest that you put something on the web site that contains some of
what you have talked about on the list in the last couple of days, include a
FAQ on running a local mirror (how to do it, what to change in in-house config
files to point to the local mirror, ...) I did not find anything about this when
I did this 6 months ago[**]. It should not take you long & might go some way to
addressing some problems that people on this list have evidentally experienced.

Cheers

[**] I ended up using Dag Wieers yam s/ware, which seems to work. Is there something
better ?

> >OK: won't often happen - but getting from 99% to 100% is very difficult. 
> >This
> >is what Jason & Martin are talking about.
> 
> If you run a regular mirror, you should be running rsync every few hours 
> - and anyway if there is a partial tree in place. yum should and would 
> error out.
> 
> The update process through yum does not start till the packages required 
> for the update are downloaded first. The chances of system breakage are 
> not really as high as being made out to be!


-- 
Alain Williams
Parliament Hill Computers Ltd.
Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer.
+44 (0) 787 668 0256  http://www.phcomp.co.uk/

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