We're thinking about mirroring Fedora 11 repository in our college intranet for the use of our students. After downloading the whole repository from IIT-K mirror, how do we mirror it on our server? Any help would be appreciated.
Salvadesswaran Srinivasan SSN College of Engineering
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Salvadesswaran P.S.salvadesswaran@gmail.com wrote:
We're thinking about mirroring Fedora 11 repository in our college intranet for the use of our students. After downloading the whole repository from IIT-K mirror, how do we mirror it on our server? Any help would be appreciated.
Have you already downloaded it? if yes, how? using wget ot something? Let me know, I shall mentor you on this. Thanks.
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From: susmit shannigrahi thinklinux.ssh@gmail.com To: fedora-india@redhat.com Sent: Friday, 28 August, 2009 1:01:20 PM Subject: Re: [fedora-india] Mirroring Fedora
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Salvadesswaran P.S.wrote:
We're thinking about mirroring Fedora 11 repository in our college intranet for the use of our students. After downloading the whole repository from IIT-K mirror, how do we mirror it on our server? Any help would be appreciated.
Have you already downloaded it? if yes, how? using wget ot something? Let me know, I shall mentor you on this. Thanks.
-- Regards, Susmit.
Susmit i have managing mirror at NITC, shall i take up this call to help them in setup ?
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Susmit i have managing mirror at NITC, shall i take up this call to help them in setup ?
Sure. Go ahead and keep us updated about how it is going. Thanks for the help.
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:31 PM, susmit shannigrahithinklinux.ssh@gmail.com wrote:
Susmit i have managing mirror at NITC, shall i take up this call to help them in setup ?
Sure. Go ahead and keep us updated about how it is going. Thanks for the help.
Just a wish:
I'll appreciate if someone can take up a project to make new-mirror-setups more seamless for new takers of private/public mirrors. Perhaps few interactive scripts, cron configurations, sync scripts in a RPM, or if there is one existing already then I'll love to know about it.
Hopefully that work will also help to convince ISPs in country to setup mirrors (or at-least Intelligent Mirror) within their network for their Internet services users. At the Fedora 12 test day I realized that to increase userbase and QA contribution from within India, its first of all important for us to increase the number of mirrors.
Regards, Kevin
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Kevin Vermakevinverma@fedoraproject.org wrote:
I'll appreciate if someone can take up a project to make new-mirror-setups more seamless for new takers of private/public mirrors. Perhaps few interactive scripts, cron configurations, sync scripts in a RPM, or if there is one existing already then I'll love to know about it.
Susmit did demonstrate a "mirror-on-a-box" concept around a year back with rudimentary scripts setting up a mirror. A larger requirement for the mirror is the base set of bits, beyond that it is rsync, mirror-manager and, talking with the Infrastructure folks. The important requirement is having the will to maintain it for atomicity.
Hopefully that work will also help to convince ISPs in country to setup mirrors (or at-least Intelligent Mirror) within their network for their Internet services users. At the Fedora 12 test day I realized that to increase userbase and QA contribution from within India, its first of all important for us to increase the number of mirrors.
To increase the QA contribution, we need more people doing QA on existing release, honing their skills and, moving to rawhide. It is a fact of life that contributing to QA on rawhide requires at least another machine (to be able to have a single sane and, a single broken box) - most students will not be having that. On the other hand, they do have computers in their labs and, figuring out a way to have QA jam sessions would help them appreciate and, learn about the OS bits better. I have always had hopes that the college installation fests would progress to some QA activities too - sadly, all of them seem to be very content doing nothing more than installations.
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 6:45 AM, sankarshanfoss.mailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Kevin Vermakevinverma@fedoraproject.org wrote:
I'll appreciate if someone can take up a project to make new-mirror-setups more seamless for new takers of private/public mirrors. Perhaps few interactive scripts, cron configurations, sync scripts in a RPM, or if there is one existing already then I'll love to know about it.
Susmit did demonstrate a "mirror-on-a-box" concept around a year back with rudimentary scripts setting up a mirror. A larger requirement for the mirror is the base set of bits, beyond that it is rsync, mirror-manager and, talking with the Infrastructure folks. The important requirement is having the will to maintain it for atomicity.
Thanks to Susmit for his great efforts, I'll love to know where can I read more about "mirror-on-a-box" ?
Hopefully that work will also help to convince ISPs in country to setup mirrors (or at-least Intelligent Mirror) within their network for their Internet services users. At the Fedora 12 test day I realized that to increase userbase and QA contribution from within India, its first of all important for us to increase the number of mirrors.
To increase the QA contribution, we need more people doing QA on existing release, honing their skills and, moving to rawhide. It is a fact of life that contributing to QA on rawhide requires at least another machine (to be able to have a single sane and, a single broken box) - most students will not be having that. On the other hand, they do have computers in their labs and, figuring out a way to have QA jam sessions would help them appreciate and, learn about the OS bits better. I have always had hopes that the college installation fests would progress to some QA activities too - sadly, all of them seem to be very content doing nothing more than installations.
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Lot of QA work can also be done within Virtual Machine guests but still fast download resourcing is a critical requirement. So far it looks that there aren't any mirrors hosting development bits for India as of now. (http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/12-Alpha/)
~kevin
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Kevin Vermakevinverma@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Lot of QA work can also be done within Virtual Machine guests but still fast download resourcing is a critical requirement. So far it looks that there aren't any mirrors hosting development bits for India as of now. (http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/12-Alpha/)
If you can find time to write up about how to set up a VM to do QA and, add that document to the Fedora wiki, I'd say we have a canonical URL to point folks to. Coupled with the offline repositories being setup by Shakthi, it would be a good start.
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Salvadesswaran P.S. < salvadesswaran@gmail.com> wrote:
We're thinking about mirroring Fedora 11 repository in our college intranet for the use of our students. After downloading the whole repository from IIT-K mirror, how do we mirror it on our server? Any help would be appreciated.
Salvadesswaran Srinivasan SSN College of Engineering
BTW i googled about your college, it seems to be in chennai if I am not wrong, you can contact the IITM fellows for the same. They can copy the stuff in a hard disk for you. Here is there google group http://groups.google.co.in/group/linuxusers_iitm.
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