[Glug-nith-discuss] [important] Enlist Fedora mirror with Fedoraproject?

[Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray]

Are we interested in maintaining the private Fedora mirrors in NIT Hamirpur?

If we are not, then feel free to delete this email and I will delete
the fedora.glug-nith.org sub-domain with immediate effect.

If you are remotely interested, read on. Interesting stuff ahead.

Sometime back Rakesh had forwarded a mail regarding the absense of
Fedora mirrors in India. This is related to that.

I am told Razorblade's bandwidth shortage has been addressed recently,
but we are still way short of the cut-off (atleast 100Gbps) to become
an official public mirror. However that does not change the fact that
Razorblade will always be very fast as far as the users in the campus
are concerned. So let us try to work out a compromise. :-)

However there is a problem in using the Razorblade mirrors. The user
needs to manually configure their Yum to work with these repositories.
On the other hand, all the international public mirrors are
automatically configured by Yum. Would it not be wonderful if we could
find a way in which the private Razorblade mirrors could be
automatically configured and enabled for all NIT Hamirpur users
without any extra effort?

To do that we need to enlist our mirrors in Fedora's MirrorManager
database as a private mirror and mention the range of IPs used by the
NIT Hamirpur folks. This would prevent any non-GLUG-NITH from using
our mirrors, and also automatically configure all the Fedora
installations in the campus to use Razorblade.

Here is a mail from Matt Domsch explaining the process. Anyone interested?

Regards,
Debarshi

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Matt Domsch <address@hidden>
Date: 26 Sep 2007 19:16
Subject: Re: Finding Indian mirrors for Fedora
To: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden

Private mirrors may list themselves as private in the MirrorManager
database, meaning they won't show up on the public user list.  Then at
least we know they exist.  In addition, they can add a list of IP
network blocks that they wish to serve into the MM database.  This
will cause their users in those netblocks to be automaticly directed
to their local private mirror - no config changes on the user's system
is then required.

If someone wants to do this, they must also run the report_mirror
script on their mirror server, to inform the MM database about which
content they're carrying.  This way users only get directed to the
mirror for content that is actually mirrored, and to other mirrors for
content not avaialble locally.

Thanks,
Matt
Fedora Mirror Wrangler

https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india


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