[mirror-admin] RHEL 6 Beta

[Brian Long]

On 04/23/2010 04:28 PM, Dennis Gregorovic wrote:
> 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. :)

Dennis,

Thanks.  It sounds like an automatic rsync is not needed at this time
and we should wait for any follow-up beta or release candidates before
rsync'ing again.  No need for me to churn the disk on my upstream if
there are not going to be changes.

/Brian/
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