The updates firehose

[Matt Domsch]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 07:55:11AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Matt Domsch wrote:
> >On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 04:41:12PM -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> >>Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> >>
> >>>Are people complaining?
> >>I don't complain when it happens with my own computer that's
> >>being updated daily... but it's painful when you update a
> >>dozen of desktops in the office to F7 and all them want to
> >>download 500MB worth of updates the first time they boot.
> >>
> >>Yes, I could use a local Fedora mirror.  And, in fact,
> >>I do.  But then I'd have to customize the yum config on
> >>all clients to go look there.
> >
> >You can add your local private mirror to mirrormanager, add a netblock
> >that covers your address space, and all your clients will then pull
> >from your local mirror rather than public mirrors, with no change on
> >the clients.
> >
> >https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager
> >http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring
> 
> Matt, would you be interested in writing a updated mirror guide? The one 
> at http://docs.fedoraproject.org is pretty outdated and we need to cover 
> all the new configurations and features in the new mirror manager.

Yeah, somehow I found that link the other day, and thought it needed
to be reworked somewhat.  That doc is nice in that works regardless of
any new features Fedora Infrastructure provides (like mirrormanager),
and is good for anyone anywhere that has a copy of the packages,
either from media or downloaded.  But it could certainly be enhanced
to describe using the publicly available mirrors to keep your own tree
up-to-date, as well as pointers to perhaps another doc describing how
to use MirrorManager.

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Matt Domsch
Software Architect
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