NBLUG Mandrake mirror report

Christopher Wagner chrisw at pacaids.com
Thu Sep 26 12:18:15 PDT 2002


Well, one question for you, how many previous versions of the kernel do we
REALLY need?  If it's a question of disk space...

I agree with junking Ximian, and all the old updates for 6.2-7.1.

But really, what we're looking at basically is a need for a larger hard
drive.  I'm perfectly willing to donate money towards a new hard drive for
the mirror box.

- Christopher Wagner
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-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Eisenhart [mailto:eric at eisenhart.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 9:52 AM
To: root; talk at nblug.org
Subject: Re: NBLUG Mandrake mirror report


On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 08:39:46PM -0700, augie wrote:
> when (if ever) could we expect the new mandrake 9.0 iso's up on the
> mirror?

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 04:45:29AM -0700, root wrote:
> ===============================================
> Starting rsync for Mandrake/Mandrake
> Thu, 26 Sep 2002 04:09:10 -0700
> ===============================================
[snip]
> @ERROR: max connections (10) reached - try again later

Well, I guess that all depends on where we're mirroring from...  Also, we
only have 2.1GB available on the partition mirroring goes on, so something
has to go.  The mirroring for mandrake is rsync based and says "get
everything except what I'm excluding", meaning that new versions should
automatically get mirrored.

And, for that matter, RedHat 8.0 apparently comes out Monday and we'll also
be attempting to mirror that 5CD distro...

So, it's safe to assume that RedHat is 3.0-3.2GB, which may need to be
doubled for iso and distro; what size is the new Mandrake?  To fit the new
redhat, i'd have to figure out where to drop 1 to 5 GB of space out of the
mirrors.  The raw distro and the isos typically have some differences, but I
could drop mirroring the raw distro and simulate it with some loopback
mounting and lots of symlinks...

Any suggestions on what to drop?  I'm inclined to drop Ximian outright, all
RedHat updates other than 6.2, 7.2, 7.3 and 8.x, and
kernel.org/linux/kernel/people.  Maybe restrict the kernel mirroring down to
2.4 and 2.5 (and any 2.6 or 3.0 that happens to come along later).
(dropping 2.0 and 2.2, as well as dropping testing, ports, crypto, Historic,
etc.)  That'd free up 3 to 4GB of space...
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