[mirror-admin] RHEL 6 Beta

[Dennis Gregorovic]

On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 15:33 -0400, Brian Long wrote:
> On 04/21/2010 05:43 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Dennis Gregorovic <dgregor at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 15:34 -0400, Brian Long wrote:
> >>> I'm wondering why the RHEL 6 Beta was not handled in a similar fashion
> >>> to the Fedora betas.  Mirrors could have staged the RHEL 6 Beta a few
> >>> days ago and people wouldn't be complaining about 4.5KB/sec download
> >>> rates from ftp.redhat.com.  :)
> >>>
> >>> /Brian/
> >>
> >> I'll take responsibility for the mistake there.  It was an error in
> >> planning on my part.
> >>
> > 
> > Hey! No fair, that was my sword you just fell on. To be honest there
> > is a lot of blame to go around.. I expect the lessons learned meeting
> > to be a lot more sword falling.
> > 
> 
> I didn't want to blame anyone per se; I was just wondering if maybe the
> RC (assuming there is one) could go smoother.
> 
> Next question: how often are RHEL 6 Beta updates being pushed if at all?
>  In other words, how often should we run rsync against our upstream mirror?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> /Brian/

Hi Brian,

We are not expecting the public beta to be refreshed very frequently. As
we get closer to GA, we will revert to the RHN channel based delivery
model for updates. This is similar to the model we followed for RHEL5
and will allow existing subscribers to smoothly manage RHEL versions
under their existing subscriptions.

If/when there are any significant refreshes (more than just a small
collection of packages), I'll make sure to give plenty of notice. :)

Cheers
-- Dennis

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