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

[J.H.]

As a note I plan to start mirroring a lot more archival content shortly, 
not just Fedora but basically everything I can get my hands on.  I've 
got a couple of chassis with 12T (raw) of disk showing up in Amsterdam 
and my apartment in the Bay Area in the next couple of days, thanks to 
HP's continued generosity.

I don't have an ETA for getting this up, but I thought I'd let people 
know that this was going to happen.  I'm not sure there will be any 
point in providing tiered mirror access, but I will be providing public 
rsync, ftp and http to the content once I've got it up.

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley
Chief Kernel.org Administrator

Matt_Domsch at Dell.com wrote:
> This is active now.  Please see below for how to report to the MM
> database that you carry the new [Fedora Archive] category.  I expect
> Fedora 7 and 8 content to be deleted from the master mirror in the next
> day or two, so please copy it out of your [Fedora Linux] tree to your
> [Fedora Archive] tree before then, else you'll wind up seeing it
> deleted, and if you want it back, you'll have to download it again.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> Fedora Mirror Wrangler
> 
> --
> Matt Domsch
> Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
> linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mirror-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:mirror-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Matt Domsch
> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:42 AM
> To: mirror-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Fedora 7/8+updates going away
> 
> FYI for all mirrors.  Action for you if you wish to keep Fedora 7 and
> 8 content.
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> -----
> 
> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:57:58 -0500
> From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com>
> To: mirror-list-d at redhat.com
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> Subject: Re: Fedora 7/8+updates going away
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> Status: RO
> 
> 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_pla
> in;f=client/report_mirror.conf;hb=1111bfc49a84539b46a6a289768d0e89619885
> 26
> 
> 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...
> 
> 
> --
> Matt Domsch
> Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
> linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
> 
> --
> 
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> 

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