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[Carl George <carl.george@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Howdy,

Most IUS users consume our packages indirectly through our mirror network.  The 
geographically relative mirrorlist is generated by a service called dmirr [0].
We have decided to migrate to a new application called umirr [1].  The 
migration will occur in the following stages.

1. Community members volunteer to install the latest version of the ius-release 
   RPM [2] from our development repos.
2. The new ius-release RPM will move to the testing repos for more testing.
3. The new ius-release RPM will move to the stable repos.
4. We will change the DNS record for dmirr.iuscommunity.org to point to 
   mirrors.iuscommunity.org.

The final stage is necessary because some users skip the release package and 
manually create their yum repo configuration file.  Since umirr accepts 
identical parameters as dmirr, the transition should be seamless.

If you would like to opt-in to help with stage 1, please let us know!  You 
would just need to install the latest version of ius-release from our 
development repos (and possible merge the rpmnew files if you have made 
previous edits).

    yum --enablerepo=ius-dev upgrade ius-release
    find /etc/yum.repos.d -name '*.rpmnew'

[0] https://github.com/rackerlabs/dmirr
[1] https://github.com/iuscommunity/umirr
[2] https://github.com/iuscommunity-pkg/ius-release

Carl George
IUS CoreDev Team