[Ambassadors] Fedora private mirrors for Sri Lanka

[Danishka Navin]

Hi Matt,

Thanks for your quick responce. :)

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Matt Domsch <matt at domsch.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 08:54:26AM +0530, Danishka Navin wrote:
> >    Hi All,
> >
> >    Currently I'm handling Free-media project for Sri Lanka, and
> Maintaining
> >    Sinhala language for the Fedora.
> >    But I relized that Free-media project is not a total solution for a
> >    distribution.
> >    Sometimes we are busy with our work. And the Form activation is only
> one
> >    day per month.
> >    But still Free-media project is good. But we can go ahead.
> >
> >    I have proposed to Sri Lanka Linux community to have private mirrors
> on
> >    each and every university.
> >    Its the 1st phase. As the the 2nd phase putting Fedora mirror on the
> Sri
> >    Lanka School-net, thats is the official VPN for all the schools in
> Sri
> >    Lanka.
> >
> >    Please provide a rough idea of space, connectivity and bandwidth
> assuming
> >    a test case like this.
> >
> >    you host latest stable release
> >    synchronize every two weeks
> >    100 regular users per university
>
> The full Fedora 8 install tree is 88GB, including the ppc arch and
> debuginfo packages, which you may not need.  If only carrying i386 and
> x86_64, and no debuginfo, it's 39GB.
>
> The updates tree for Fedora 8 is another 47GB including ppc and
> debuginfo, 16GB if not.
>
> The releases tree changes only every 6 months (excluding test
> releases).  The updates tree should be synced daily.
>
> Budgeting 200GB for Fedora 9 is not too much, especially as we've been
> growing the releases over time.  I expect the full install tree to be
> 120GB, and over time the updates tree will grow as it has with Fedora
> 8.
>
> We have no public mirrors registered for Sri Lanka, and would
> appreciate having some.  We have only 2 public mirrors in India
> (presumably where your users are pulling from today).


yeah,
We I am planning proposed to www.sltidc.lk for a public mirror.  :)


>
> As for bandwidth required, we recommend no less than 10Mbit/sec, and
> prefer 100Mbit/sec or higher if available.  Often times educational
> networks will have even higher available bandwidth inside a single
> university or between universities.
>

Now all major universities are connected to LEARN network (University VLAN )
via a Optical Fiber having a bandwidth of at least 10Mbps.
And hope to host internal mirror at one of the University and others can
sync from that.


>
>
> >    My ultimate target is to cover each and every academic and region IT
> >    centers in Sri Lanka.
>
> That would be fantastic.
>
> >    Appreciate you earliest response.
> >
> >    Regards,
> >    --
> >    Danishka Navin
>
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
> Fedora Mirror Wrangler
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring
>
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Danishka Navin
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