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Mirror Admins, |
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One and all, the time is upon us for the release of Gentoo Linux 2004.2. |
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I plan to begin staging the mirrors tomorrow morning CDT, July 22nd, |
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with the release going public on July 26th. We're going with the same |
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"bit flip" method as done for 2004.1. Files will be transferred only |
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readable by your rsync/httpd/ftpd procceses until the 26th, at which |
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time their world-readable flag will be flipped and the release material |
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will be released to the world. |
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At latest we have amd64, x86, sparc, and hppa releasing archs. PPC will |
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be not be released officially for our 2004.2 cycle. This release will be |
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around 7.5GB on your distfiles mirrors, give or take. We do not expect |
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that number to change much at all. |
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We will keep you posted about the status of the release as it draws |
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nearer. We have upgraded our infrastructure at Oregon State University |
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thanks to the Open Source Labs. Distfiles mirrors should now be syncing |
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to masterdistfiles.gentoo.org; Rsync mirrors should still sync to |
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rsync1.us.gentoo.org as usual. The same login credentials used for the |
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new distfiles mirror are the same as previous. |
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Gentoo Infrastructure and Release Engineering members will be in |
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#gentoo-mirrors on irc.freenode.org from now until the release for any |
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questions or concerns you have. |
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I personally would like to thank you all for the hardware and bandwidth. |
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Without the mirrors and your help, our releases would not happen. |
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Thanks! |
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For Infrastructure and Release Engineering, |
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Jeffrey |
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Jeffrey Forman |
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Gentoo Infrastructure |
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Gentoo Release Engin. |
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jforman@g.o |
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