[mirror-admin] RHEL 6 Beta 2

[SWITCHmirror Admins]

I assume that the URL to be added to the mirror manager should be for
the top rhel directory, so that
  http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/redhat/rhel
would be the right one, but I did not see any hint on what is expected
there.

Will you share some info in advance on how the tiering for this release
will look like? Which Tier 1 are already registered where I could fetch
from next week?

What is the currently planned hour (in UTC) for opening up? Will you
post here, in case the schedule slips?
Just to be able to plan the day...

Thomas

On 23.06.10 18:23, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Hello mirrors,
> 
> As announced at the Red Hat Summit this morning, there will be a refresh of 
> the RHEL 6 beta.  The current plan is to make this available on Tuesday, June 
> 29th.  Of course, that is subject to change based on internal QE testing.
> 
> We are hoping to enlist mirror support for this refresh.  I have already 
> updated the yum repos to include mirrorlist URLs.  For this refresh, the top-
> level paths will be:
> 
> /pub/redhat/rhel/beta/5.90Server
> /pub/redhat/rhel/beta/5.90Workstation
> 
> The version of redhat-release-* has been downgraded to 5.90{$variant} in this 
> refresh to avoid RHN upgrade issues between now and GA.
> 
> These two directories will contain approximately 34G of RPMs and 27G of ISOs 
> (taking hardlinks into account).
> 
> We won't be able to provide much of a runway for seeding before going public, 
> but we can make the bits available to mirrors on Monday, June 28th.  That will 
> allow for approximately 24 hours of seeding before the release. 
> 
>  We would like to take advantage of the tiering to make this available in a 
> smooth and orderly process.  There is a new RHEL product in fedora's 
> mirrormanager instance. Please add yourself to it if you will be mirroring the 
> bits. Due to the short time frame to get the bits out and available we would 
> appreciate you running report_mirror when you have the complete tree. 
>  
>  We would appreciate if everyone with a complete mirror at release time could 
> do a manual chmod to make the bits available. 
> 
> Thank you in advance for your help.  It's much appreciated.
> 
> Cheers
> -- Dennis Gilmore
> -- Dennis Gregorovic


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