Re: Debian mirror / developer machine
On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 20:20:11 -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
<debian@polynamaude.com> wrote:
>No, I ain't talking about derivatives of Debian. I talking about a
>mirror by itself, like all the other one around (ftp.xx.debian.org).
What advantage would the world have with just another mirror? Is it in
a unique place where other mirrors are hard to reach? Is it especially
fast?
I would not advise running a local mirror if keeping it current will
cause more traffic than people using it. Debian has ample hardware and
mirrors available. We do lack personpower in key positions and in
maintanence of key packages. Not enough people are doing the boring
gruntwork.
>I didn't know about this infrastructures. I'm more talking about
>allowing some people on a individual basis the use of the machine to do
>development.
>
>Example, developer named Joe would like to have his workspace available
>thru SSH and don't have the funds to have a server online (or don't want
>to bother).
So you are not talking about a mirror, but a developer machine. That
sounds like a good idea, especially if your machine has something
"exotic" such as a non-mainstream architecture.
You need to pay close attention that people don't abuse your machine
to spam or crack. Unfortunately, many people cannot be trusted, and
handing out a shell is something that needs quite a lot of trust.
System Developers are also likely to need root access to their
development box, you wouldn't want to give that out on the host
itself, so you'd better think about providing VMs and/or containers.
>For now, I need to be able to do a complete re-installation of my Debian
>instance without using the automated installer offered by
>OVH/One-provider. This give me only one partition of 2 Tb in RAID-0
>(Mirror) 3x2 To.
>
>I need more than one partition and don't really need this level of RAID.
>Something like RAID-5 (parity) would work great to be fail safe.
>
>I'm good to do the installation and use debootstrap to build the server
>but there seem to be problem with either doing the setup for network
>upon reboot or else... I have some trouble shoot to do on how will it
>get to work. I don't have access to the machine via KVM so I need to
>work using the "rescue" mode. That is a network boot that give me access
>to a shell, partition the disk, format the partition, mount the
>partition, run debootstrap, setup grub, configure the network and... reboot.
All this should be a breeze for someone who plans to give out shell
access to more or less random people.
Greetings
Marc
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