Re: Next steps to get RPM Fusion running (V2)

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 09:14:19AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >>> - 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/mirrormanag... >> It can be changed, but I would prefer if I do not have to change it ;-) > Okay, then I'd say changing the release packages is the easier way for > everyone. thx >>> - 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. > Do we want to ignore this for now and nevertheless switch to use > mirrormanager? (If we ignore this now I fear that this will never get > fixed...) I would say: let's set up a backup mirrorlist server and hope that in an emergency we will manage to switch the DNS fast enough. All I need is an account on the "backup mirrorlist server" and someone who can do some changes to the webserver configuration to get it running.