quick-mirror-fedora and new tier1 only master mirrors

[Kevin Fenzi]

Greetings. 

Two items to share today: 

1. If you are using a rsync script or bare command to mirror Fedora
content, please do try and move to https://pagure.io/quick-fedora-mirror
It saves you time, it saves us time, it's just all around better for
everyone. 

2. In order to ensure that our tier1 mirrors (and other contributors)
are able to sync content, we have moved two of our download machines to
be 'tier1' only. These machines (download05.fedoraproject.org and
download04.fedoraproject.org, aka dl-tier1.fedoraproject.org) should
allow tier1 and others priority access. All tier1 mirrors should look
to changing their sync target from dl.fedoraproject.org to
dl-tier1.fedoraproject.org

If you are not a tier1 mirror and are having problems syncing content,
do look and see if you can sync from a closer tier1 or other mirror. 

See: 

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring/Tiering

If you would like to become a tier1 mirror, have need of priority
access, or have other issues, please file a ticket in the infrastructure
issue tracker: 

https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issues/

kevin

[Brian Long (brilong)]

On 3/9/17, 4:44 PM, "Kevin Fenzi" <kevin(a)scrye.com&gt; wrote:

    Greetings. 
    
    Two items to share today: 
    
    1. If you are using a rsync script or bare command to mirror Fedora
    content, please do try and move to https://pagure.io/quick-fedora-mirror
    It saves you time, it saves us time, it's just all around better for
    everyone. 


For many years, I have maintained a private mirror but I only mirror
fedora-enchilada/fedora/linux/ to my local /var/www/fedora directory.  I also only mirror
the releases and updates subdirectories.

In looking through your q-f-m website and config file, I’m not sure I can limit my mirror
to that specific subdirectory and take advantage of the speed increases.  I have plenty of
disk space, so I believe I’ll make a “fedora-enchilada” directory in /var/www, move the
existing /var/www/fedora directory into the proper /var/www/fedora-enchilada/fedora/linux
directory, and make symlink /var/www/fedora ->
/var/www/fedora-enchilada/fedora/linux.

I believe this would allow internal clients pointing to my mirror to continue working
while I take advantage of q-f-m.  Does this sound like a decent plan or am I missing
something?

Thanks.

/Brian/

-- 
Brian Long
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Government, Trust and Technology Services
Security & Trust Organization
Research Triangle Park, NC

[Chuck Anderson]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 10:17:10PM +0000, Brian Long (brilong) wrote:
>  On 3/9/17, 4:44 PM, "Kevin Fenzi" <kevin(a)scrye.com&gt;
> wrote:
>  For many years, I have maintained a private mirror but I only mirror
> fedora-enchilada/fedora/linux/ to my local /var/www/fedora directory.  I also only mirror
> the releases and updates subdirectories.
>  
>  In looking through your q-f-m website and config file, I’m not sure I can limit my mirror
> to that specific subdirectory and take advantage of the speed increases.  I have plenty of
> disk space, so I believe I’ll make a “fedora-enchilada” directory in /var/www, move the
> existing /var/www/fedora directory into the proper /var/www/fedora-enchilada/fedora/linux
> directory, and make symlink /var/www/fedora -> /var/www/fedora-enchilada/fedora/linux.
You can exlude things via the FILTEREXP option in
quick-fedora-mirror.conf, e.g.:

FILTEREXP='(^alt/|^archive/|^epel/|^fedora-secondary/|^fedora/linux/core/|^fedora/linux/extras/|^fedora/linux/development/)'

That would get you Fedora release content and updates.  You can also
get more granular to exclude specific arches or debuginfo content,
etc.

[Brian Long (brilong)]

On 3/9/17, 5:49 PM, "Chuck Anderson" <cra(a)WPI.EDU&gt; wrote:

    On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 10:17:10PM +0000, Brian Long (brilong) wrote:
>  On 3/9/17, 4:44 PM, "Kevin Fenzi" <kevin(a)scrye.com&gt;
> wrote:
>  For many years, I have maintained a private mirror but I only mirror
> fedora-enchilada/fedora/linux/ to my local /var/www/fedora directory.  I also only mirror
> the releases and updates subdirectories.
>  
>  In looking through your q-f-m website and config file, I’m not sure I can limit my mirror
> to that specific subdirectory and take advantage of the speed increases.  I have plenty of
> disk space, so I believe I’ll make a “fedora-enchilada” directory in /var/www, move the
> existing /var/www/fedora directory into the proper /var/www/fedora-enchilada/fedora/linux
> directory, and make symlink /var/www/fedora -> /var/www/fedora-enchilada/fedora/linux.
>  
    
    You can exlude things via the FILTEREXP option in
    quick-fedora-mirror.conf, e.g.:
    
   
FILTEREXP='(^alt/|^archive/|^epel/|^fedora-secondary/|^fedora/linux/core/|^fedora/linux/extras/|^fedora/linux/development/)'
    
    That would get you Fedora release content and updates.  You can also
    get more granular to exclude specific arches or debuginfo content,
    etc.
   
Chuck, thanks for the feedback and explanation of the FILTEREXP.  Do you agree with my
migration plan as far as moving the existing content?  I’m also mirroring EPEL, but it’s
under /var/www/epel.

I’ve provided internal clients with yum config RPMs that specifically point to my
mirror:/fedora and mirror:/epel directories so I need to avoid breaking those URLs.

Looks like I’ve got some testing to do.  ☺

/Brian/