[BlueOnyx:01890] Re: Centos

[Andrew Marentis]

In the interim cant we use some mirrors, so then if the site goes down we
can just default to the mirror's. if the site goes away sync the mirrors to
a another source.

-Andrew



On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet <
cobaltfacts at virtbiz.com> wrote:

> Rodrigo Ordonez Licona wrote:
> > I think the worst case scenario is that it will change to another domain,
>
> Not to dive too far into speculation, but I think the absolute worst
> case is that Lance shuts the whole thing down, and now it becomes a
> matter of manually changing every CentOS box to pull its updates from
> new repos.
>
> In a "friendly" move, the publishers can pop in a YUM update to tell all
> the boxes to automatically find their new repos.   In an "ugly" one,
> significantly more end-user intervention is required.   And then, of
> course, there is the strong likelihood that a large percentage of
> users/admins will not have heard of the change, their updates will
> simply stop, the website is gone, and they'll assume that the distro is
> dead.
>
> However, with the sheer size of the CentOS installed base, I think it's
> probable that (a) Lance won't make that public an enemy of himself and
> (b) even if I'm wrong about "a" then word will spread about the new domain.
>
> Just my 2 cents, and that's really more speculation than I wanted to get
> into in the first place.  I guess instead of pizza for lunch I should
> have bitten my tongue.  ;)
>
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