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Existing mirrors are available at: https://mirrors.mageia.org
Their sync status is shown at: https://mirrors.mageia.org/status
Needed:
- expiry policy; to know what is actively supported and what is not (likely to move to an archive section)
- archive section; so that a mirror may move archived stuff on cheaper storage systems
- announcement/discussion mailing-list
- release plan (see https://mageia.org/en/calendar/ that already hosts Mageia release schedule).
- mirroring tools (rsync, mirrorbrain, mirrormanager?)
- better organization of this doc
Available media
First, a table summary:
| media | required for mirror? | enabled by default? | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| release | updates | updates testing |
backports | backports testing | ||
| core | Ja | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| nonfree | Yes | Yes for Mageia 1 (by installer for Mageia 2) | Yes for Mageia 1 (by installer for Mageia 2) | No | No | No |
| tainted | Nein | No | No | No | No | No |
| debug/* | No | No | No | No | No | No |
"Enabled by default" means that such a media is automatically registered, activated and used by the package manager for installing/updating software.
Now here are the media details:
core
- enabled by default
- mirrors must mirror this media to be listed as a mirror
- only free/libre stuff as described by FSF / OSI
- must be selfcontained
nonfree
- enabled by default for Mageia 1, disabled by default for Mageia 2 (installer will ask to enable it if it detects hw that need driver/fw from here...)
- mirrors must mirror this media to be listed as a mirror
- contains apps/drivers/firmware that are free to redistribute but we dont have redistributable source for
- for example ati/nvidia drivers/firmware, Oracle Java, ..
tainted
- disabled by default
- mirrors are free to not mirror this media
- stuff we think we can redistribute, but that may have some patent issues or other restrictions in other countries
- NO nonfree stuff is allowed here
- see our Software patents policy and Software inclusion policy (drafts)
debug/core
- disabled by default
- debug rpms for core
debug/nonfree
- disabled by default
- debug rpms for nonfree
debug/tainted
- disabled by default
- debug rpms for tainted
Media layout details
Every media contains the same layout:
release
- disabled by default on nonfree, installer will ask to enable it if it detects hw that need driver/fw from here
- disabled by default on tainted, debug_core, debug_nonfree, debug_tainted
updates
- disabled by default on nonfree, installer will ask to enable it if it detects hw that need driver/fw from here
- disabled by default on tainted, debug_core, debug_nonfree, debug_tainted
updates_testing
disabled by default
backports
disabled by default
backports_testing
disabled by default
Mirrors layout
"distrib" section
- Hosts all source and compiled packages for all architectures, for cauldron (dev branch) and stable releases.
- Expected size:
"iso" section
- Hosts all released ISOs for cauldron (dev branch) and stable releases.
- Expected size:
"people" section
- Offers redundancy of a mirror space to Mageia members. We expect it to hold some specific flavor ISOs, or smaller files (rpms, tarball, document).
- this is part of an experiment to empower members to express themselves
- Expected size:
"software" section
- Hosts tarballs of Mageia own hosted software (see soft/ section for now; forge to come).
- Expected size:
"archive" section?
Not defined yet. Would host unsupported/old releases (rpms/isos) for archiving purposes.
Full layout
And here is the full mirror layout: (stable releases have same layout as cauldron)
Remember that core, nonfree, tainted, debug/* have the same layout detail as shown above; this is omitted in the below tree for readability purpose.
Mageia/
/distrib/
/cauldron/
/i586/
/doc/
/install/
/isolinux/
/media/
/core/
/backports/
/backports_testing/
/release/
/updates_testing/
/updates/
/nonfree/
/tainted/
/debug/
/core/
/nonfree/
/tainted/
/x86_64/
/doc/
/install/
/isolinux/
/media/
/core/
/nonfree/
/tainted/
/debug/
/core/
/nonfree/
/tainted/
/srpms/
/core/
/nonfree/
/tainted/
/stable1/
/i586/
/srpms/
/x86_64/
/iso/
/cauldron/
/i586/
/x86_64/
/stable1/
/i586/
/x86_64/
/people/
/software/
How to (become a) mirror?
Prerequisites
- The expected size of the mirror is around 1.8-2TB. The mirror only contains the last 2 stable releases and the development branch called cauldron.
- Required software (rsync)
Official sources
If you plan to create a public mirror, we encourage you to use one of our Tier1 mirrors:
- rsync://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/ (Paris, France)
- rsync://mirror.accum.se/mirror/mageia/ (Umeå, Sweden)
- rsync://mageia.c3sl.ufpr.br/mageia/ (Curitiba, Brazil)
- rsync://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mageia/ (Princeton, USA)
- rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/mirrors/mageia/ (USA, geo-distributed load balancing)
A full list of our mirrors can be found here: [1].
Rsync options
When syncing a mirror, the following options should be used.
| $ rsync -aHS --delete-after --delete-delay --delay-updates |
Please do not use compression and checksum options as these are too much of a burden for the remote servers.
Automate
The tree must be synchronized at least every 2 hours.
Please ensure that another rsync process is not started before the first one has finished running: use a lock file.
Register your mirror
Please go to https://mirrors.mageia.org/new
