Jeremiah wrote:
There are some folks who're will to mirror our PureOS distro which is very generous of them.
Alas, I fear this is a bigger question that just rsync daemon settings. :)
Whilst extremely kind of them, how will this work for our users? Ask them to alter their sources.list? Are we going to commit to providing a CDN of some description?
Even a round-robin DNS solution has issues in that we have no immediate, insight or control over whether any "non-official" mirror is up-to-date, something obviously important from a user point of view.
Thoughts?
Best wishes,
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On Wed, 2019-01-30 at 23:13 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
Jeremiah wrote:
There are some folks who're will to mirror our PureOS distro which is very generous of them.
Alas, I fear this is a bigger question that just rsync daemon settings. :)
Whilst extremely kind of them, how will this work for our users?
Do you mean how do we enable our users to easily take advantage of the mirrors? E.g. not having to edit source.list.d/ by hand?
Ask them to alter their sources.list? Are we going to commit to providing a CDN of some description?
Is a CDN necessary?
Even a round-robin DNS solution has issues in that we have no immediate, insight or control over whether any "non-official" mirror is up-to-date, something obviously important from a user point of view.
Thoughts?
On balance I feel the benefits of a mirror outweigh the risks, at least if we are clear with how we handle the mirrors. I'll follow-up on Jonas' suggestion and look into the CDN.
In researching this a little it seems quite common to provide a mirror list, like Kali does: https://http.kali.org/README.mirrorlist
If only to enable "power users" who likely download a fair amount I think this would be a benefit. There have been comments in the forum and other places that downloads can be slow.
I'll propose some documentation based on what the community best practices seem to be and come back to this list for review and comment.
Regards,
Jeremiah
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On Fri, 2019-02-01 at 12:24 -0500, Jeremiah C. Foster wrote:
On Wed, 2019-01-30 at 23:13 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
Jeremiah wrote:
There are some folks who're will to mirror our PureOS distro which is very generous of them.
Alas, I fear this is a bigger question that just rsync daemon settings. :)
Whilst extremely kind of them, how will this work for our users?
For power users we can simply post information in the forums, wiki, and other documentation. That might reduce considerably the bandwidth issues we are seeing now since a sizable portion of our users appear to be fairly technical and messing with /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ oughtn't be too difficult.
Do you mean how do we enable our users to easily take advantage of the mirrors? E.g. not having to edit source.list.d/ by hand?
Ideally the 'Software' tool from GNOME might be a good candidate to enable switching mirrors. I realize that may be a more long term goal but there are other tools that appear useful in Debian that we might use as well, like apt-mirror.
Ask them to alter their sources.list? Are we going to commit to providing a CDN of some description?
I intend to speak to Fastly: https://www.fastly.com/open-source They may be able to help.
Work also has begun on a policy document in the internal PureOS wiki.
Regards,
Jeremiah
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