[mirror-admin] Mirror Prep Consensus?

[Jesse Keating]

On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 11:49 -0700, C.M. Connelly wrote:
> "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.
> 

That's the plan.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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