a better way to upgrade rhel

Well, that might be a bit of an over statement.  We’ve only been live just about one week now, so technically we don’t need more mirrors.  That said, the word is getting around and users are starting to subscribe to our repos.  Eventually we will require a geographically distributed list of mirror servers to point our users to.

If you are at all interested in provided just a little bit of space on your server to mirror our data we would be extremely grateful.  Currently the repo is pretty small:

[wdierkes@dl01 ~]$ du -hs /exports/pub/ius/
1.3G    /exports/pub/ius/

We aren’t expecting the repository to grow at any great speed or anything as we are attempting to keep the package set to a minimum… that said, the repo will continue to grow and therefore more space will be required.

Please email us at coredev@lists.launchpad.net if you are interested!

Update: 20010-01-01

IUS has been growing strong for several months now, and we continue to grow at a rate of 100% +- monthly.  For that reason, we’d really like to get more community support by way of distributed mirror servers.  As similar to the original post, the data required is now around 1.5G.

For anyone interested, we have updated our wiki to include documentation on mirroring for anyone interested in supporting IUS with bandwidth and web space.

• http://wiki.iuscommunity.org/Doc/MirroringIUS

Thanks.