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[Carl George <carl.george@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We are moving forward with step three.  The new ius-release RPM will move to
the stable repos during tonight's automation run.  Please let us know if you see
any issues.

Carl George
IUS CoreDev Team

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From: Ius-community <ius-community-bounces+carl.george=rackspace.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Ben Harper <ben.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 05:22 PM
To: ius-community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ius-community] umirr - a new mirror list service

On 04/17/2015 08:05 AM, Carl George wrote:
> 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
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We are moving forward to step two.  The ius-release package will be
hitting our testing repos after tonight's automation run.  As always
feedback is welcome.

-Ben and the rest of the IUS covedev team

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