It's time for 5.1-R bits

[Scott Long]

Alpha bits are almost up.  Sparc64 bit will likely go  up tonight,
though there are no sparc64 packages or a sparc64 disc1 yet.  These
might very well not be ready for Monday.  Oh well.  It looks like the
chmod trick is working well.  I apologize to the second-tier mirrors
that cannot access the bits yet.  If we keep this model, you'll have
to work out arrangements with the first tier mirrors for special
access.
IMPORTANT: The official 5.1 announcement and press release will go
out at 1000EDT (1400GMT).  I'd like to unmask the release bits about
an hour before the announcement, which would be 1300GMT 9-June-2003.
Please set your at(1) jobs accordingly!

Thanks a lot!

Scott

Scott Long wrote:
> i386 and pc98 iso and ftp bits are up with the restricted permissions.
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> Scott
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> Scott Long wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Scott
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>> Jun Kuriyama wrote:
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>>> 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?
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>>> 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?
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>>>> 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?
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>>> I think we should not hope every mirror maintainer can tweak.  CVSup
>>> and rsync can handle permission change effectively.
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>>>> 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.
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>>> 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).
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>>> 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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