[mirror-admin] RHEL 6 Beta 2

[Dennis Gregorovic]

Hi,

Sorry for not replying earlier.  Things were quite busy with the Red Hat
Summit last week.

There has been a one-day slip.  The new schedule is:

Tuesday, 9am EST (13:00 UTC) - bits will be available for seeding
Wednesday, 9am EST (13:00 UTC) - bits will be available for the public

I'll defer to Dennis Gilmore for the other questions.

Cheers
-- Dennis

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 13:29 +0200, SWITCHmirror Admins wrote:
> 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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