Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:23:15 +0200 From: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> To: "Simon L. B. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update "mirror" howto Message-ID: <6D5EF049FD84BF0620E50077@ogg.in.absolight.net> In-Reply-To: <CAC8HS2FRaJRkFfH-F2Ro4SXOt_=wrzFFDYadZEhmU4D_Ez0xMg@mail.gmail.com> References: <021473D8D9E6A7A785543024@ogg.in.absolight.net> <CAC8HS2FRaJRkFfH-F2Ro4SXOt_=wrzFFDYadZEhmU4D_Ez0xMg@mail.gmail.com>
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+--On 12 septembre 2012 13:57:34 +0100 "Simon L. B. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> wrote: | On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org> wrote: | |> It's not really a hubs thing, but anyway, I thought I'd share my few |> bits... |> |> For a long time, I pondered about upgrading my 300+ freebsd servers, and |> a few months back freebsd-update seemed like the way to go... | | Very interesting for information like this to be shared. Even better | if somebody could be tricked into putting it in the handbook :-). Hum, I see where you're going with that ;-) The thing is, I wanted a bit of feedback to see if I wasn't doing something stupid before committing myself into doing that. I have not written doc for a long time, I'll try to see if I can coerce myself into doing that next week while I'm vacationing in Corsica. |> Now, I did not want all those servers to hit the main freebsd-update |> servers, so I setup a nice local "mirror" using varnish. | | Why did you decide to go with Varnish instead of a program designed as | a forward cache? Because Varnish is *cool*. :-p |> Varnish's configuration is there https://gist.github.com/2637602 and it |> would be even better if varnish could use SRV records to define it's |> backends by itself, but for now, there are a couple of shell that I have |> to run whenever I feel like it to update the list. | | Evil workaround thing would be to just parse the SRV records in a | script and then generate the varnish config wrt. backend based on | that... not pretty though :-). Well, that's almost already what's there, when I feel the need to update, I edit the file with vim, I remove the old lines, copy the shell line in the script, remove the # and type "V!bash" ;-) -- Mathieu Arnold
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