Next steps to get RPM Fusion running (V2)

[Oliver Falk]

Adrian Reber wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 08:18:47AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>>> - get the mirror manager that adrianr put in place (see
>>>> http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-developers/2008-October/001393.html
>>>> listed as mirrors.rpmfusion.org in DNS;
>>>>
>>>> Needs
>>>>  * adrianr: 	IP address
>>>>  * thias: 	DNS update
>>> This has been done.
>>>
>>> http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-9&arch=i386
>> Thias, thx for taking care of it. Some issues:
>>
>> - we need something better for http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org ;-)
> 
> This should be fixed.
> 
>> - the current release files and the mirrormanager use different names  
>> for the repo files; Example:
>> release.rpm right now has:
>>     [...]?repo=rpmfusion-free-debug-f$releasever[...]
>> mirror manager expects:
>>     [...]?repo=free-debug-fedora$releasever[...]
>> We need to change one of the two (or both).
> 
> Mirrormanager uses:
> 
> https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/browser/server/mirrormanager/repomap.py
> 
> It can be changed, but I would prefer if I do not have to change it ;-)
> 
>> - back a few weeks ago you iirc said that we need to be able to adjust  
>> DNS quickly in case the machine goes down; that's not solved yet
> 
> No, it is not. We need a another machine running the mirrorlist which
> would then get the necessary data from the main mirrormanager instance.
> And in a case of a failure we need someone who can changes the DNS entry
> very fast.

Why not having a second mirrormanager running on another machine and 
have in DNS 2 A records?

-of

PS: I should be able to provide you with some space/storage/whatever if 
you need...