[Mageia-discuss] Mirror infrastructure setup

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op zaterdag 02 oktober 2010 18:53:46 schreef Olivier Thauvin:
> Hi,
> 
> I do plan to start to setup the mirror infrastructure this week, even some
> part will be temporary. Here the plan for comment and review.
> 
> 1) Seting up rsync.mageia.org
> We don't have yet the server installed and ready (the sys admin is still
> working on this and I guess they will do a good work.
> So I'll setup somewhere a basic and mostly empty tree with some reference
> files. Over the tree I'll setup an rsync share, access restricted by IP
> (eg the tree must accessible only by Tier1 mirrors).
> 
> 2) Mirrors list
> I'll setup the promise web application (probably on distrib-coffee at time)
> + an svn read-only access to the code. The application is still limited,
> not beautifull but it can do the job of registering mirrors properly.
> 
> 3) Our First Tier1 (distrib-coffee)
> Can be done only when rsync.mageia.org is setup (even temporary), I'll
> fully setup distrib-coffee to provide the full mageia tree.
> When this step will be done:
> - we'll be able to distribute small file massivelly if need
> - I'll be able to provide an alive mirror tree, so we'll can discuss the
> tree strucure
> - anyone wanting to do its own mirror will be able 'pre' setup it over this
>   first Tier1 and registering it on the web application
> - we'll have a real testing mirror structure.
> 
> BTW: finding other Tier1 mirrors is still in progress.
> 
> 4) Documentation
> During the setup I'll write a documentation about how to properly do a
> Mageia Mirror. This documentation will be addressed to anyone wanting to
> do a _public_ mirror with the rules to have officially validated.
> I suggest having this documentation as text file at the top of mirror tree.
> This make faster to find as the first thing a mirror admin look is the
> mirror tree. This does not deny to reference it on Wiki.
> 
> Once each step is done I'll send mail with the progress and all
> informations you can need to give feedback.
> 
> About the mirror directories structure: I'll start another thread for this
> subject, so please be patient.
> 
> Do you have comment or proposal about this process ?

no comment, other than placing that documentation at the top of the mirror 
tree is a very good idea.