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[Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Apr 02, Jeremy Blosser [jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org] wrote:
> On Apr 02, Eric Sandall [eric AT sandall.us] wrote:
> > On Monday 02 April 2007 09:45:05 Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> > > Is anyone planning any major updates to test in the next day or two?  I
> > > need to turn off the automated tarball creation for a bit so I can move
> > > things around.  When I'm done ibiblio will be a mirror instead of the
> > > primary upload site, which will make it easier to allow for other, 
> > > faster
> > > mirrors.
> > 
> > I have no major changes planned, unless openoffice 2.2 decides to 
> > miraculously 
> > work. ;)
> 
> Ok.  I'm going to start this real soon now since I just got a mail from
> ibiblio that all their stuff is going offline for maintenance tomorrow
> night.  They say distro won't be affected but why take chances when I can
> maybe have a backup ready by then.

It took longer than I'd like but automated updates are going again.  I
don't have all the mirroring stuff done yet but I at least have stuff in
place to be able to do that now.

I'll give a full description of all the changes once they're all done, but
for now, this is what you need to know:

- If you were one of the people who used to upload things to ibiblio, DON'T
  DO THAT ANYMORE.  ibiblio is no longer the primary, so anything you
  upload to there *will* get overwritten or deleted.  Instead, upload to
  distro.sourcemage.org*, to /srv/distro/download/.  The regular
  grimoire/cauldron/sorcery/etc. directories exist under that hierarchy,
  just like you're used to, and this is what everything syncs from.  You
  should have access to that tree if you had access to ibiblio before.
  However, you'll be using an individual login instead of a shared login,
  so please make sure you aren't using a bad umask that makes it so other
  people can't modify things later.  You should all also be able to sudo to
  the 'distro' user if you need that to fix permissions up or anything
  along the way; if you're worried about getting permissions right just
  sudo to distro and use that to move files into the download tree.

  *Yes, distro.sourcemage.org is fawkes right now, but it won't be once I
  partition this box via VMs, so please get used to using proper hostnames
  for different things you want to do (scm vs. upload vs. whatever).  

- Because we're introducing extra layers in the process, the update
  schedule has to change some so that we can still try to get updates to
  users inside the existing 6-hour cycle.  We're now generating tarballs
  every 3 hours, with ibiblio syncing every 3 hours on a staggered
  schedule.  So you'll see new tarballs to download every 3 hours, but the
  content in them may be a few hours old already when they're synced.

- Those of you that need to do stable(-rc) grimoire updates need to use a
  new script now; you can get it from /usr/local/sbin/update-grimoire on
  distro.sourcemage.org.  This is the script that does the local tarball
  updates too, so read it and modify the config vars at the top for your
  own usage on your local machines.  If you need help with it let me know.
  It expects git 1.5.x.  I plan to get this stuff into a git repo when it's
  done but not yet.

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