Re: [nznog] Anyone interested in donating space / connectivity / kit for a better NZ Debian mirror?

From memory (as the soul that set up the original Citylink Debian mirror), both Debian and Ubuntu are pretty insistent that if you want to run an official country mirror and get access to their push master servers (so that they control when you do mirroring, normally several times a day), then you have to be using their official multi stage scripts. They weren't the easiest things in the world to get going, but that was back when the world was flat, they may actually have docs now.

Having been bitten today by the absence of said mirror, I'm happy to volunteer some time to help admin, if that's useful. On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 03:52:18PM +1300, Chris Browning said:

City link allow rsync to the mirror so I believe it is really a proper mirror the uses the Debian multi stage rysync scripts to stay up to date. I run an internal Debian mirror using the official scripts, it's really quite easy to establish and maintain the mirror data files.

Chris

On 2 April 2016 15:42:32 GMT+13:00, Pieter De Wit wrote:

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Happy to offer rack space, bw and even a VM or two - heck - I can just open up our internal mirror

From memory the Citylink server is an apt-cache proxy type server so the disk space requirement is small

Cheers,

Pieter

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On 2/04/2016, at 15:36, Michael Fincham wrote:

Thanks for the quick and generous offers from folks on and offlist!

I'm putting together a list of what's been offered and will be in touch some time during the week to see what we can kick off.

Still keen to hear from anyone who would like to contribute!

It's also been suggested we run a Patreon, which is an interesting idea :)

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