InstantMirror initial source repo

[Warren Togami]

Ed Swierk wrote:
> On 11/20/07, Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> wrote:
>> BUGS TO FIX TO MAKE IT ACTUALLY WORK
>> - wget --server-response http://PATH/TO/LARGE/FILE
>>   It constantly redirects over and over again rather than waiting.
>>   FILE.tmp never gets larger than 8192 or 16384 bytes.
> 
> Hmm, my setup doesn't do that. What upstream server are you using, and
> which release of Fedora? I am running it on an FC6 machine, using
> http://linux.nssl.noaa.gov .

Fedora 8 with http://download.fedora.redhat.com

> 
>> - We MUST find a way so the client can begin downloading the file while
>> the mirror downloads the file.  Any other reverse proxy server would
>> allow this.  This might be difficult to implement (perhaps impossible
>> with mod_python?) but this might be the only sane way to fix the
>> previous problem.
> 
> I don't think this has anything to do with the problem above. This
> would be a nice enhancement, though. It does complicate the
> implementation, especially to handle byte range requests properly.

It does complicate the implementation, but unfortunately this will be a 
completely necessary feature.

> 
>> - Even if apache:apache owns DocumentRoot, SELinux denies by default.
>>   Need sane solution.
> 
> I haven't yet tested on a machine with SELinux enabled.
> 
> I've attached an updated version of ApacheMirror.py with a redirection
> bug fixed; previously it omitted the http://server part of the URL,
> confusing some clients like Anaconda. I don't expect this to fix the
> problem you're seeing, though.
> 
> --Ed
> 

Did you checkout the initial repo?

Warren