>>>> "MM" == Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> writes:
MM> I'm not sure exactly where the cutoff should be, but I guess I'd be
MM> a bit hesitant to move F23 away just yet.
The big issue is whether the four or five places which mirror archive handle
the load of the old releases. I don't think it would make much
difference to me, honestly. A secondary consideration is geographical,
since I believe all of those hosts are in the US.
I think all of this is dwarfed by EPEL5 anyway. I'm still getting
between two and five machines per second asking for
/fedora-buffet/archive/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
MM> But, maybe we should make it easier for mirrors to have only-current
MM> and current-1? (F24 is only 15%, but of course that was much higher
MM> six months at F25 launch.)
Well, if you're using quick-fedora-mirror, it's one line in
quick-fedora-mirror.conf to exclude a release, but you would have to
keep that updated.
FILTEREXP='/(releases/22|updates/22|updates/testing/22)'
I could conceivably come up with a way to generate that somehow so you
could just say how many "old" releases you did want to keep. But it
would be kind of weird, since I don't know exactly how you would define
"old" in this context, and I'm not sure if the client could figure that
out itself or whether we'd need additional information in the file lists
to enable this.
Mirrormanager should be quite fine with this arrangement.
- J<