[mirror-admin] Fedora 7/8+updates going away

[Matt Domsch]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 04:30:36PM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:31:38AM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:55:35AM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > > > We're moving Fedora 7 and Fedora 8 to our archives.fedoraproject.org
> > > > server.  You can still sync the content there.  Unfortunately our plan to
> > > > have the master mirrors upgraded by now hasn't happened yet so we're just
> > > > running out of space.
> > > >
> > > > I'll be removing the 7/8 content from the master mirrors sometime tomorrow
> > > > replacing it with a README like we have the others.
> > >
> > > How will this affect the Fedora 7/8 clients?  If their yum repos are
> > > pointing directly to download.f.r.c, then it will break after the
> > > move.  But if they are using mirrorlist, which is the default config I
> > > believe, will MirrorManager redirect their requests to working
> > > servers?  That would be ideal.
> > >
> > 
> > Fedora 7 and Fedora 8 are EOL and not officially supported, I suspect
> > whatever we do will be best effort.
> 
> Yes, I know they are EOL.  I'm asking that consideration be made for 
> the MirrorManager/mirrorlist configuration to be left intact so as not 
> to break NetBlock redirection and perhaps any other public mirrors 
> that have the space and wish to still be listed/redirected to for yum 
> updates.

I'm working on it... 

Mirrors will need to do several things:

1) grab the new report_mirror.conf file posted in the git tree
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/mirrormanager?p=mirrormanager;a=blob_plain;f=client/report_mirror.conf;hb=1111bfc49a84539b46a6a289768d0e8961988526

which adds a [Fedora Archive] category.  The canonical location for
this will be http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/  and I'd
expect mirrors to carry it at something like pub/fedora-archive/ (but
of course that's up to you).  Just not under pub/fedora/ please, as
that's used by the fedora-enchilada rsync module.

I haven't done the MM database fixes to properly handle this yet, so
it'll just be ignored until I can get that done.

2) manually copy content from pub/fedora/linux/releases/[78] to
   /pub/fedora-archive/fedora/linux/releases/[78].  Likewise updates.
   Because of the way the fedora-enchilada rsync module is set up, we
   can't simply hardlink the new archive location to the original
   releases/ location.

3) Go into the MM database and create a new Category [Fedora Archive]
   and add your URLs to that category.
   https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager.  Until I update the
   DB, you can't do this...

Give me a few minutes...


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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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