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
