[mirror-admin] upcoming disruption in rawhide, F17-branched

[Dennis Gilmore]

El Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:23:28 -0500
Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> escribió:
> At the request of assorted mirror people, we're changing the layout
> of the tree slightly.
> 
> Instead of Packages/<20,000 packages>, we're intending to hash the
> packages by first letter. 
> 
> You will get:
> 
> Packages/a/<some packages>
> Packages/b/<some pacakges>
> 
> etc.
> 
> We're intending to start this with the initial landing of the F17
> branched tree. However, we'd also want to do this in rawhide going
> forwards. We can start this switch at any time, but it would be a
> bandwidth-intensive event for mirrors whenever we do it. Is there a
> preference for switching rawhide a) when we branch F17 b) a week
> before we branch F17 c) tomorrow...?

this is actually landing right now. i accidently untagged the mass
rebuild for f17 and had to retag it in. since there was so much
additional churn anyway I decided to land it now. we have a pain point
so im ripping the bandaid off.

Thanks to all the mirrors

Dennis


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