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 http://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 | Yes | 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 | No | 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 a experiment to empower members to express themself
- 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
- Expected size (700GB over 4 years?)
- Needed software (rsync)
Official sources
If you plan to create a public mirror, we encourage you to use one of our Tier1 mirrors:
* rsync://distro.ibiblio.org/mageia/ (Durham in the USA, slow sync) * rsync://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/mageia/ (Paris in France) * rsync://ftp.LinuxCabal.org/Mageia (Lucern in Switzerland) * rsync://mageia.c3sl.ufpr.br/mageia (Curitiba in Brazil)
These servers synchronise the tree directly from the Mageia rsync server (private access). Otherwise, you may use any of our [mirrors].
Rsync options
We would appreciate you use these options:
$ rsync -aHS --delete-after
-aH is a must. -S --delete-after are nice.
Please do not use compression and checksum options as these are too much 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 http://mirrors.mageia.org/new