[LUGSB] Gentoo Mirror

[Jan Kasiak]

Thanks for the info Richard.
Sounds interesting and easy to set up. We can talk more sometime this week.
For now I think all the mirror admins (including me) are busy with holiday
stuffs.

Happy Holidays and New Year!
-Jan

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Richard Yao <ryao at ic.sunysb.edu> wrote:

> Jonathan told me earlier in the semester that mirroring Gentoo on mc
> exarchbuntian would not be an issue if I could get the information for
> setting up the mirror. I now have the information.
>
> Gentoo Linux has two types of mirrors. One is for the portage tree
> (subdivided into main rotation, community and private mirrors) and
> another for the source files used by Gentoo. At the moment, they only
> want two types of mirrors. One is a main rotation mirror for the
> portage tree, which I do not think we can give them. The other type
> would be a distfiles mirror with the source files used by Gentoo
> Linux, which I think we can do
>
> The Gentoo Linux Foundation has a guide setting up a distfiles mirror:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/source_mirrors.xml
>
> I setup a virtual machine on my home network that functions as a
> private mirror as a dry run for this, so I can summarize all of the
> steps. Here are the steps for the source mirror:
>
> 1. Pick a folder for the files.
> 2. Run "rsync -av --delete ftp.ussg.iu.edu::gentoo-distfiles
> /mirror/gentoo/full/" - this could take a few days, so run it in
> screen and leave it alone for a while.
> 3. Put "rsync -av --delete ftp.ussg.iu.edu::gentoo-distfiles
> /mirror/gentoo/full/" on a cron job that runs every 4 hours.
> 4. Make a symbolic link to the source mirror directory in the HTTP
> server path, possibly named gentoo.
>
> That is as far as I went on my virtual machine. The steps after this
> are as follows:
>
> 5. File a bug report at the Gentoo Bug Tracker with information on how
> to connect to the mirror. - I can do this.
> 6. Wait for about 2 weeks while the Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team
> evaluates the mirror to ensure that it is properly configured. - I can
> do this.
> 7.  If it works, they will add it to the official rotation and send us
> information on how to synchronize with their "private master distfile
> mirror".
> 8. They will expect the server admin to register on the gentoo-mirrors
> mailing list.
>
> If I had a user account on the server, I could configure this on my
> own, join the mailing list and act as the contact for the Gentoo Linux
> Foundation. The only things I would need are a user account (with a
> 210GB quota, rsync and cron jobs) and a symbolic link in the server's
> htdocs directory that points to directory in the user account so that
> I could put the mirror there and have it be available to the internet.
>
> Yours truly,
> Richard Yao
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