[Systems] What happened to the mirror? (Was [Systems-logs] Cron <root at sunjammer> test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly ))

[Samuel Cantero]

Hi Sam,

I would go for the 2nd approach. Apparently it all fit correctly and we can
continue moving our services to docker containers.

Best regards,

Samuel C.



On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 6:56 AM, Sam Parkinson <sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 5:47 PM, Cron Daemon <root at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>
> /etc/cron.weekly/mirrorbrain: bash: asn_import: command not found
>
>
> This cron error message hides that mirrorbrain isn't running at all now.
> See this in
>
> 1) appending ".mirrorlist" to a download.sugarlabs.org URL now gives a
> 404 (should show a list of mirrors and file metadata)
> 2) our MirrorMon [1] (which uses data from mirrorbrain) now shows that
> there are no mirrors.  This is a lie, arrnet's still mirroring us [2]
>
> Upon further investigation, it doesn't seem to be even set up properly:
>
> 1)  "sudo -u mirrorbrain mb" (mb is mirrorbrain config tool) -> "sudo: mb:
> command not found"
> 2) from apt.sources.list "#bernie: mirrorbrain no longer supported on
> trusty :-("
>
> So, any preferences for a plan of action?  So far, I can think of:
>
> 1)  Compile it from source.  MirrorBrain moves slowly, so my old tut about
> this is still up to date [3].  But this feels so dirty and bad.
> 2)  Use a Debian 8 docker container.  The mirror brain repos [4] include
> packages for it, so it is just a package manager install in that respect.
> We can base it off the official docker apache images[5], which use debian
> jessie.
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
> [1]  https://mirrors.sugarlabs.org/
> [2]  http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/sugarlabs/
> [3]
> https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-mirror-director-with-mirrorbrain-on-ubuntu-14-04
> [4]  http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Apache:/MirrorBrain/
> [5]  https://github.com/docker-library/httpd/blob/master/2.4/Dockerfile
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