[fab] Master Mirror List Control

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 16:33 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> At present the master mirrors list is on a Red Hat server.  I'm not
> sure who maintains it:
> 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/
> 
> Should we move this to a Fedora server?  With FC6 coming out all
> installs will default to pointing to mirrors.fedoraproject.org.  That
> box basically takes its list from the fedora.redhat.com list and
> checks the mirrors for freshness / availability.
> 
> Another issue that has come up is, for example, the request for an
> extras-devel-source repo.  Its in rawhide, but extras-devel-source
> does not exist in the master list.
> (see https://admin.fedoraproject.org/tickets/customer.pl?Action=CustomerTicketZoom&TicketID=121
> ticket# 2006091510000015 for more info)
> 

2 thoughts:
 1. maybe mirrors.fedoraproject.org should be hosted on more than one
machine that are on different networks - so that network inaccessibility
doesn't break everyone, everywhere. (ie: one at duke, one at phx)
 2. +1 to moving it off of fedora.redhat.com

-sv