[mirror-admin] New Private Mirror

[Matt Domsch]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:42:21AM -0400, Brian Long wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 15:23 +0100, Uwe Kiewel wrote:
> > Brian Long schrieb:
> > > Hello,
> > > I've set up a private mirror with report_mirror successfully logging the
> > > directories I'm carrying.  The site is listed here:
> > >
> > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/site/299
> > >
> > > How long should it be before the mirrorlist CGI returns my private
> > > mirror? 
> > IIRC the CGI script is only updated a couple of minutes after every full 
> > hour
> 
> Yes, I just needed to be more patient.  :)  Since my mirror is now
> returned at the top of the mirrorlist output, I assume I need clients to
> set failovermethod=priority to always prefer my mirror.  Is that
> correct?

Fedora 8 and higher this is the default already.  Fedora 7 and
earlier, the code will only return your mirror, not the rest.  So, no
client side changes needed.


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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux

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