Hey. it sounds like a cool idea for us to mirror distros. it also sounds cool to have Maryland mirroring packages like ebuilds for gentoo or rpms for Fedora etc. I would definitely use it. Why does the business school mirror linux????
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Nick Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would definitely use mirrors of CD images for Ubuntu if there were > some hosted by the UMLUG, as things can get quite bogged down around > release. In recent times I've just used the torrents to download > images, but sometimes if can be hard to even get those, so if nothing > else it would actually be helpful if we could just mirror the torrent > files (which are, obviously, small). > > The other thing that can get bogged down is updates from the repository > when a significant number of package updates are available at once. > While I realize that hosting a repository would take a lot of space, > might it be possible and useful to host only the updates or security > repository mirror with only more modest requirements? > > Just a few ideas, > > Nick > > Ken Tossell wrote: > > Hi UMLUG, > > > > I'm sure some of you know the LUG used to maintain a mirror for > > various distributions on AFS. Unfortunately, it was last updated in > > May 2004, with Fedora Core 2. > > > > I'd like to get it going again. I've started pulling down a few > > distributions' CD/DVD archives, but I'd like to know how much > > interest you all have in a local mirror, so: > > > > - Do you think we should operate a distribution mirror? Would you use > it? > > - Should we mirror just CD/DVD images or also host package archives? > (This > > means a lot of space, but we have it.) > > - What distributions, if any, should the mirror have? (The business > school > > already mirrors CentOS.) > > - Should this mirror be accessible from off the campus (with > restrictions, > > such as only allowing UMD users, and depending on the university's OK)? > > - Other projects? > > > > - Ken > > > -- Neil Sikka
