[mirror-admin] Fw: Fedora 8 and 9 updates status: ~200GB hitting the mirrors

[Axel Thimm]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 08:33:54PM -0300, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> Matt Domsch (Matt_Domsch at dell.com) wrote on 5 September 2008 11:41:
>  >extras/ is being moved off the master mirrors right now as well, to
>  >make additional space.
>  >-Matt
>  >
>  >On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 11:34:59AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
>  >> Heads Up.  ~200GB of new content is about to hit the master mirrors.
>  >> This is all the packages of Fedora 8 and Fedora 9 (but not the ISOs),
>  >> for the release/[89] and updates/[89] trees, re-signed.
> 
> Tough... It'll take between 10-15 days to get this. I'll try to speed
> things up by launching several parallel rsyncs.

Isn't that cheating? AKA download accelerators? We even have HOWTOs on
how to block such practices on fpo. :-/

> It'd be convenient if all tier 1 mirrors allowed access to all the
> others.
> 
> If rpms weren't signed individually all this wouldn't be necessary. It
> doesn't add extra security because it's enough to have checksums for
> the packages in a separate signed file.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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