Re: mirrors, Debian http-redirector & derivatives

[Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Wed, 03 Jun 2015, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > Have you found any problems with using it for serving apt repositories?
> 
> It works very well given that most files served by a Debian mirror
> have a unique name. So you are always redirected to a mirror that has the
> file that you requested.
> 
> The few problems I have encountered were mostly due repropro deleting
> old packages immediately instead of keeping them around for 2-3 days until
> all Packages file no longer reference such files.
> 
> That said, it would be better if mirrorbrain supported some more advanced
> health check: http://mirrorbrain.org/issues/issue150

mirrorbrain just moved to github, this is now:
https://github.com/poeml/mirrorbrain/issues/150

And I forgot about one issue that is a bit more annoying:
https://github.com/poeml/mirrorbrain/issues/21

In practice with a good mirror network, it's not so problematic, but it's
still a serious issue (one that's fixable though).

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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