[mirror-admin] Mirror Prep Consensus?

[C.M. Connelly]

"CA" == Chuck Anderson 
"JK" == Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>

    CA> The newkey versions of releases/ haven't been provided yet,
    CA> but when they are they will be:
    CA> 
    CA> .../os.newkey .../debug.newkey .../SRPMS.newkey
    CA> 
    CA> etc. for each spin and architecture under releases/8 and
    CA> releases/8.

    JK> We were also planning on staging those full of hardlinks
    JK> to the old content for a day or 5 (chmodded so that the
    JK> world doesn't see them and wonder wtf .newkey has oldkey
    JK> content).

So mirror admins won't have to do anything on our end, right?  The
mirror masters will have hard links, the leaf mirrors will pick up
those links, and a few days later the links will be replaced with
real files and the leaves will sync that material.

   Claire

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