[Mageia-sysadm] mirrors readme/howto/script

Tue Feb 22 15:40:27 CET 2011

Hi there,
+
+checking the mirrors.readme file, I wondered if we could not only
+provide directions on how to setup a mirror, but as well provide a
+simple bash script that, by default, does what we would expect best
+from a mirror provider, leaving the admin customize it.
+
+As I did it as an exercise for myself :-p here is attached such a
+script, with comments to guide. Of course, it's intended more to non
+experts as mirroring instructions would be enough and admins may
+prefer to double-check what is going to be run. Still, in the event
+this could help make the mirroring process easier for some... why not
+provide it and see if/how it is used?
+
+You may notice that it would help then that Tier1 and Tier2 mirrors
+are explicitly shown as such in the default mirrors list on
+mirror.mageia.org; so we can point people to, for instance,
+http://mirrors.mageia.org/?tier1 to get only Tier1 mirrors (yes,
+today, there's only one). Does that make sense?
+
+On a side note, Nanar, how may I submit patches for the mirrors app?
+push the (small) patches to you or commit to trunk directly?
+
+As a second-thought, an extension of this script could be to provide a
+sample script to gather download stats and push them to one of our
+server collecting download stats from several mirrors.
+
+What do you think?
+
+Romain
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