[K12OSN] K12LTSP ftp/yum/rsync server down

[Eric Harrison]

Nils Breunese wrote:
> Eric Harrison wrote:
> 
>> Yum has great support for mirrors. No problem there.
> 
> I know. I'm not running K12LTSP however so I didn't know there were
> mirrors already.

There are mirrors of the images, but currently not of the repositories.
Mirroring the repositories, in the current design of K12LTSP, requires a
huge commitment of storage space and effort. In the past, trying to
mirror the repositories has caused me more problems than it has solved -
and the problem set is now 4 times larger considering there are four
current versions of K12LTSP vs only one in the past.

Guess what I've been working on the last couple of weeks? Making K12LTSP
much easier to mirror and easier on the mirrors ;-)

>> The issue with my current configuration is that the mirror list is
>> fetched from a single server, such as:
>>
>>  mirrorlist=http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/mirrors/k12ltsp-6.0-$basearch
>>
>> If you can't get to http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us, you can't get to the
>> mirrors.
> 
> Wouldn't it be a good idea to ship a k12ltsp-release package with a
> mirrorlist in it and use mirrorlist=<somelocalfile> in the repo file?
> That way people always have their mirrorlists and you can push updated
> mirrorlists by creating a new version of the k12ltsp-release package. I
> believe I have seen other repositories do this.
> 

I've thought about this as well. I believe that CentOS is using DNS to
deal with this, which is pretty slick, but requires the mirrors to be
consistent in their file system layout.


-Eric