[PureOS] I CAN HAZ MIRROR?

[Jeremiah C. Foster]

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On Fri, 2019-02-01 at 12:24 -0500, Jeremiah C. Foster wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-01-30 at 23:13 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> > Jeremiah wrote:
> > 
> > > There are some folks who're will to mirror our PureOS distro
> > > which
> > > is
> > > very generous of them.
> > 
> > Alas, I fear this is a bigger question that just rsync daemon
> > settings. :)
> > 
> > Whilst extremely kind of them, how will this work for our users?

For power users we can simply post information in the forums, wiki, and
other documentation. That might reduce considerably the bandwidth
issues we are seeing now since a sizable portion of our users appear to
be fairly technical and messing with /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ oughtn't
be too difficult.

> Do you mean how do we enable our users to easily take advantage of
> the
> mirrors? E.g. not having to edit source.list.d/ by hand?

Ideally the 'Software' tool from GNOME might be a good candidate to
enable switching mirrors. I realize that may be a more long term goal
but there are other tools that appear useful in Debian that we might
use as well, like apt-mirror.

> > Ask them to alter their sources.list? Are we going to commit to
> > providing a CDN of some description?

I intend to speak to Fastly: https://www.fastly.com/open-source
They may be able to help.

Work also has begun on a policy document in the internal PureOS wiki.

Regards,

Jeremiah
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