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[suse-mirror] Milestone7
by Stephan Kulow 09 Sep '09

09 Sep '09

Hi, I'll upload milestone7 to the staging area any minute now, this is a very special release as we will shut down a lot of services for a power loss on the weekend, so I want to have the media publically available on mirrors as soon as possible. Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mirror+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: mirror+help(a)opensuse.org

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[suse-mirror] 11.2 Milestone6
by Stephan Kulow 20 Aug '09

20 Aug '09

Hi, I'll replace Milestone5 with Milestone6 today or tomorrow, it will be announced on monday, but depending on how many mirrors I'l see tomorrow EOB I'll publish it earlier than that. Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mirror+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: mirror+help(a)opensuse.org

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[suse-mirror] rsync -H (--hard-links) option no longer refused
by Peter Poeml 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

Hi, in all rsync modules, I removed the restriction that caused -H (--hard-links) to be refused. This was done for both stage.opensuse.org and rsync.opensuse.org. We don't have hardlinks in the tree at this time. We have no concrete plan to use them yet. But it might be good later (there have been good suggestions about this in the past, e.g. for moving stuff around). You might want to add -H to the rsync arguments just in case. The reason why we didn't want to use -H in the past (save every single cpu cycle) seems obsolete, since we migrated stage.opensuse.org to more powerful hardware. I was never sure how many extra resources this feature really needed. (We use rsync v3 on both rsync servers.) Thanks, Peter -- Contact: admin(a)opensuse.org (a.k.a. ftpadmin(a)suse.com) #opensuse-mirrors on freenode.net Info: http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Infrastructure SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development

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[suse-mirror] milestone5
by Stephan Kulow 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Hi, I'm uploading 11.2 Milestone5 the next hours. M4 will be deleted. Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mirror+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: mirror+help(a)opensuse.org

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[suse-mirror] RoEduNet mirror change
by FTP Admin 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

Hi, my name is Manuel SUBREDU and I'm in charge with RoEduNet Online Archive. Due to some internal reasons we have to move our online archive (and the mirrors) to a new server and into a new location. The opensuse mirror url's will change also. The new mirror details are: Institution: National Agency ARNIEC/RoEduNet Country: Romania Town: Bucharest Link: 2Gbps commercial + 2 x 10Gbps educational Contact: FTP Admin (ftpadmin(a)roedu.net) URL: http://ftp.roedu.net/mirrors/opensuse.org/ ftp://ftp.roedu.net/mirrors/opensuse.org/ rsync://ftp.roedu.net/mirrors/opensuse.org/ Can you please update information about our mirror and modify the rsync access lists ? Thank you,

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[suse-mirror] 11.2 Milestone4
by Stephan Kulow 23 Jul '09

23 Jul '09

Hi, I'm uploading Milestone4 the next hours, replacing M2 and M3. Not sure when it's announced as Zonker is on a conference. Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mirror+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: mirror+help(a)opensuse.org

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[suse-mirror] Short downtime of stage.opensuse.org
by Peter Poeml 16 Jul '09

16 Jul '09

Hi, to move a /var partition to a different storage system, I need to cause a short downtime of stage.opensuse.org. Peter -- "WARNING: This bug is visible to non-employees. Please be respectful!" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development

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[suse-mirror] openSUSE 11.2 M3
by Stephan Kulow 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

Hi, I'm syncing Milestone 3 at the moment, replacing M1. Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mirror+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: mirror+help(a)opensuse.org

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[suse-mirror] Cache-Control headers for metadata
by Peter Poeml 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

Hi, for all of you serving mirrored openSUSE content via HTTP, I have a little pointer which increases service quality for our users. The idea is to mark the metadata files with cache control headers that indicate that they are not served from an intermediary (proxy) cache without checking for freshness before. Add the following to your Apache config, outside of a directory context. mod_headers and mod_expires need to be loaded. <LocationMatch "\.(xml|xml\.gz|xml\.asc)"> Header set Cache-Control "must-revalidate" ExpiresActive On ExpiresDefault "now" </LocationMatch> This is (the essence of) what we use at download.opensuse.org since two years, and it makes sense to have this configuration on your mirrors for those occasional users who access mirrors directly. This greatly reduces the risk that users see inconsistencies (one file being served stale from the cache, another one served fresh from the origin server). And it doesn't sacrifice good cacheability. This is one of the reasons why HTTP is preferrable over FTP, because FTP has no means of cache control at all. The thing is that intermediaries, in default configuration, may keep content cached basically arbitrarily between 6 and 24 hours, if it doesn't come with directions about caching. Since we won't be able to rely on _all_ mirrors marking the content appropriately (and in few cases even FTP is used), we will still deliver such files directly instead of redirecting them; however, there'll always be users acessing mirrors directly, and they will benefit from the above configuration. Thanks! Peter -- Contact: admin(a)opensuse.org (a.k.a. ftpadmin(a)suse.com) #opensuse-mirrors on freenode.net Info: http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Infrastructure SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development

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[suse-mirror] Maintenance of {download,stage}.opensuse.org tomorrow 11:00 UTC
by Peter Poeml 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

To perform a hardware upgrade of download.opensuse.org, we will need to take the server offline for approximately 30 minutes. The work will commence tomorrow at about 11:00 UTC. Berlin - 12:00PM, Tuesday New York - 6:00AM, Tuesday London - 11:00AM, Tuesday Salt Lake City - 4:00AM, Tuesday Beijing - 6:00PM, Tuesday Apologies for any inconveniency this may cause. Peter -- Contact: admin(a)opensuse.org (a.k.a. ftpadmin(a)suse.com) #opensuse-mirrors on freenode.net Info: http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Infrastructure SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development

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