Matthew Gillen wrote:
those web page things work not at all with automatic downloading tools.
For example: yum.
They dont need to. Yum would continue to use whatever mirror management
it does. I am just talking about a web interface for ISO downloads.
But don't most people get the ISO from Bitt
Matt Domsch wrote:
For a while now I've been working on a webapp/database called
mirrormanager to track the status of all the various mirror systems
that you graciously administer.[...]
At this point, I'm looking for volunteers to try out the site, enter
their data, and let me know if something c
Matt Domsch wrote:
Permissions on dirs/files on the mirror should be revisited.
All directories should be 0750 and files should be 0640 before the
bitflip, to prevent leaks. vsftpd will serve a file with a known name
and perms 0644 even if the directory or one above it is 0750. Apache
won't. Le
Jonathan Steffan wrote:
* Any Spin: Not all mirrors chose to carry the ISO images. A next-hop
or local mirror might not be available with the ISO images for direct
download. This very close mirror will be able to be used to "put
together" the ISO image and with our awesome new MirrorManager the
a
Jonathan Steffan wrote:
So, you are against deltarpms also then?
The problem is not being for / against anything. Deltarpms may be
interesting for low-bandwidth client that would keep all downloaded
rpms. But it would be a IO waste for servers if users have to download
several files to rebui
Debarshi Ray wrote:
Say A, B and C are mirrors having bandwidth of x,y and z Mbps
respectively. So lets have an array which has: A, A, A... (x times),
B, B, B... (y times), C, C, C... (z times), and then generate a random
number within [0, x+y+z] and use that as an index to fetch a mirror
from th
susmit shannigrahi wrote:
Do we really need an array? Lets see..
2. If r<85 route to X,
else if 85
This is de facto an array... Your's is hardcoded (and you need a code
generator and you need to generate the code it for all GeoIP possible
result). Mine is build up using GeoIP results.
