[fab] Master Mirror List Control

[Mike McGrath]

On 10/1/06, seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu> wrote:
> 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
>

+1 shouldn't be to difficult to do.  I'll add it to my todo list.

            -Mike