Opening of the mirrors?
 

Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote on 07/10/2011 07:27 AM:
> Hi.
>
> Can someone confirm that ISO's are in their final form and ready for
> download / torrent seeding?
>
> I saw announcement on @Centos tweeter account and I see previously
> locked mirror close to me is know open, but I do not see any md5sum or
> sha1sum files.

Some last-minute issues are being worked. Please just wait for the
official announcement.

Phil
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Phil Schaffner wrote:
> Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote on 07/10/2011 07:27 AM:
>> Hi.
>>
>> Can someone confirm that ISO's are in their final form and ready for
>> download / torrent seeding?
>>
>> I saw announcement on @Centos tweeter account and I see previously
>> locked mirror close to me is know open, but I do not see any md5sum or
>> sha1sum files.
>
> Some last-minute issues are being worked. Please just wait for the
> official announcement.
>
> Phil

So should I stop the torrent? It looks like catastrophe. Only my torrent
client has 200 leechers. And it shows ~1200 leechers all together. At
least 55 people already downloaded it and are now seeding.

Mirrors should not have been opened up.

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On Jul 10, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:

> Phil Schaffner wrote:
>> Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote on 07/10/2011 07:27 AM:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> Can someone confirm that ISO's are in their final form and ready for
>>> download / torrent seeding?
>>>
>>> I saw announcement on @Centos tweeter account and I see previously
>>> locked mirror close to me is know open, but I do not see any md5sum or
>>> sha1sum files.
>>
>> Some last-minute issues are being worked. Please just wait for the
>> official announcement.
>>
>> Phil
>
> So should I stop the torrent? It looks like catastrophe. Only my torrent
> client has 200 leechers. And it shows ~1200 leechers all together. At
> least 55 people already downloaded it and are now seeding.
>
> Mirrors should not have been opened up.
>

The issue of early releasing hs been around since forever.

The issue is mostly the logistics of moving images to mirrors.
That takes time and patience.

There *IS* a rather harsh MANDATORY solution possible:

Deliberately remove the first 20K or so of all ISO's,
rendering the ISO's useless.

Go about preparing the release.

When "released", re-add the first 20K of the ISO's,
and add a suggestion that mirrors re-sync.

At some point the noise from deliberately chosen damage (by removing
the 1st 20K of images) is less than the confusion of having multiple
copies of partially released/altered smeared out all over the WWW.

hth

73 de Jeff

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Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> Phil Schaffner wrote:
>> Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote on 07/10/2011 07:27 AM:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> Can someone confirm that ISO's are in their final form and ready for
>>> download / torrent seeding?
>>>
>>> I saw announcement on @Centos tweeter account and I see previously
>>> locked mirror close to me is know open, but I do not see any md5sum or
>>> sha1sum files.
>> Some last-minute issues are being worked. Please just wait for the
>> official announcement.
>>
>> Phil
>
> So should I stop the torrent? It looks like catastrophe. Only my torrent
> client has 200 leechers. And it shows ~1200 leechers all together. At
> least 55 people already downloaded it and are now seeding.
>
> Mirrors should not have been opened up.
>
It looks like KB is OK with torrents according to his tweets, and
availability is only 0.9999%. I guess that could mean that changes will
be incorporated into torrent and only parts of it will be re-downloaded.

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On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office@plnet.rs> wrote:




So should I stop the torrent? It looks like catastrophe. Only my torrent

client has 200 leechers. And it shows ~1200 leechers all together. At

least 55 people already downloaded it and are now seeding.



Mirrors should not have been opened up.


Mirrors were opened up intentionally. *The release announcement is coming soon. *I don't believe the ISO has changed at all from what's in the current torrent, so no problem there. *There's no reason to stop the torrent - thanks for helping out!


-Jeff
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Jeff Johnson <n3npq@mac.com> Sun, 10 Jul 2011 19:31:31 +0400:

> At some point the noise from deliberately chosen damage (by removing
> the 1st 20K of images) is less than the confusion of having multiple
> copies of partially released/altered smeared out all over the WWW.

Nice idea, though. It will cover "99% pre-download" case, and will prevent
"users too eager to be too fast" from using ISOs in any way except
pre-downloading.
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Am 10.07.11 17:21, schrieb Ljubomir Ljubojevic:

> Mirrors should not have been opened up.

Impossible from a technical point: The mirrorlists which yum uses *HAVE*
to be populated at least with a few hosts before release. And for that
the mirrors have to be open.

It's a bit of "egg and chicken" - we only can announce when we have a
reasonably sane mirrorlist for most countries, but that takes around
three hours or so after "the bit has flipped".

Regards,

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Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> Am 10.07.11 17:21, schrieb Ljubomir Ljubojevic:
>
>> Mirrors should not have been opened up.
>
> Impossible from a technical point: The mirrorlists which yum uses *HAVE*
> to be populated at least with a few hosts before release. And for that
> the mirrors have to be open.
>
> It's a bit of "egg and chicken" - we only can announce when we have a
> reasonably sane mirrorlist for most countries, but that takes around
> three hours or so after "the bit has flipped".
>

Phil's mail suggested another change of ISO file, so in that context I
was wondering why were mirrors opened.

Since all is alright, this step seems logical.

Ljubomir
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