i think if we mirror a distro it should be Debian. if we mirror more than one then Debian should be one of those. the best idea seems to be torrents for the actual distro and mirrors only for the packages... ~Brian
On Feb 11, 2008 5:07 PM, Neil Sikka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
