2 mirrorlist changes for this week
Mike McGrath
mmcgrath at redhat.com
Mon Nov 5 15:41:40 UTC 2007
Matt Domsch wrote:
> Vasile, admin of repo.fedoramd.org, noticed two bugs in the mirrorlist
> script.
>
> 1) some users aren't being resolved by GeoIP. Turns out, we have two
> different copies of the GeoIP.dat database on app3 and app4. I
> want to update both to have this month's copy. We should also
> figure out how to automate getting this file once a month and
> publishing to our app servers.
>
This sounds very low risk, I'd say you could do this during the freeze
without issue.
> 2) If a user isn't resolved by GeoIP, they will be given the global
> list, but without excluding mirrors who have an Exclusive Country
> set (e.g. Vasile's server really only wants traffic from .md users,
> but he sees global users). This requires a change to
> mirrorlist_server.py trim_by_client_country() which I haven't made
> yet, but will look into doing so. We should make this change to
> provide better accurate clients to our mirrors to keep their
> expenses down. I'll post the patch here for review before implementing.
>
Were you planning on implementing this pre or post F8 launch?
-Mike
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