It's time for 5.1-R bits
Scott Long
scottl at freebsd.org
Thu Jun 5 18:01:10 PDT 2003
The 5.1-R ISO's for i386 are up with the permissions that I stated
below. I'm going to do a spot check later tonight and see how they
show up on the mirrors.
Scott
Jun Kuriyama wrote:
> At Thu, 05 Jun 2003 11:31:37 -0600,
> Scott Long wrote:
>
>>i386 and pc98 bits for 5.1-R are ready to go online. Alpha and sparc64
>>will happen over the next 2 days. We are scheduled to make the
>>announcement and press release on Monday, June 9. So, it's time to
>>decide on how to push out the bits to the mirrors without allowing
>>public access, how to quickly grant public access, and what, if
>>anything, should be done about BitTorrent.
>>
>>1. Distributing to the mirrors. The easiest approach seems to be
>>to use a permission setting of 0660 on the files and 0770 on the
>>directories. However, this will exclude the second-tier mirrors
>>that mirror off of others using anonymous access. What should be
>>done about this?
>
>
> Even if 0770 dir, anonymous access can be done if mirror is done with
> group which is same as anonymous ftp user. Should we write the rule
> for mirror site maintainers about this?
>
>
>>2. Granting anonymous access. If I publish an exact time, will
>>everyone be able to tweak their mirrors by hand? If not, will
>>rsync'ing the permission change be fast enough and not eat up too
>>much bandwidth?
>
>
> I think we should not hope every mirror maintainer can tweak. CVSup
> and rsync can handle permission change effectively.
>
>
>>3. BitTorrent. I personally like this idea. We only need a few
>>mirrors to act as seeds. Once the release happens and people start
>>using these seeds, they'll become seeds themselves and the load will
>>quickly flatten out. However, it's up to you guys.
>
>
> Hmm, I don't know how BitTrront works and has good performance for us.
> It seems we should continue the duscussion about this (and we should
> not use it for 5.1-R yet).
>
>
> Anyways, it is difficult to coordinate with mirror maintainers for new
> configuration/installation in few days. If 0770 dir can works, doing
> such for few days (for tier-1 mirrors) may work...
>
>
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