It's time for 5.1-R bits

[Scott Long]

i386 and pc98 iso and ftp bits are up with the restricted permissions.

Scott

Scott Long wrote:
> 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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