Not sure about the rest of you, but since I have no contract with Puppet Inc. specifying the maintenance of rsync services I would shrug and move to using apt-mirror. I've used it before and it's nearly drop-in.
https://apt-mirror.github.io/ https://packages.debian.org/jessie/apt-mirror https://forge.puppet.com/jtopjian/apt_mirror Pity about rsync service though. On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:13:29AM -0700, Garrett Honeycutt wrote: > +1 to an alternate rsync service. > > A lot of us already have tooling built up around rsync, so this change > breaks work flows. It also comes without warning for a service that has > been around for ages. > > Best regards, > -g > > On 4/24/17 7:19 AM, Andreas Paul wrote: > > We would also be interested in an alternative server to rsync from. > > > > Best regards, > > Andreas Paul > > > > On Monday, April 24, 2017 at 2:46:24 PM UTC+2, Chris Kuehl wrote: > > > > Is there an alternative server we can rsync from? We've been using > > ftpsync (the recommended tool > > <https://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror> for mirroring apt > > repositories), which worked great until this was turned off. ftpsync > > appears to be at least somewhat superior to the other options. > > > > Thanks, > > Chris > > > > On Friday, April 21, 2017 at 1:54:36 PM UTC-7, Daniel Dreier wrote: > > > > On Wednesday we put yum.puppetlabs.com > > <http://yum.puppetlabs.com> and apt.puppetlabs.com > > <http://apt.puppetlabs.com> behind the CloudFront CDN in order > > to accelerate downloads for overseas users. Both repositories > > have historically been served from the Linode Fremont > > datacenter, and download performance from Australia and Asia in > > particular are dramatically faster with the CDN than without. > > > > One side effect is that we no longer support rsync. Other tools > > like mrepo, reposync, and apt-mirror can sync to your local > > mirror via HTTP. Since you'll be accessing cached content from a > > local CloudFront edge location, HTTP mirroring should be very > > fast for most users. > > > > -- > > Daniel Dreier > > Technical Operations Engineer > > GPG: BA4379FD > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Puppet Users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > > an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > <mailto:puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/d1c9a550-cc51-48bb-8d5b-3c6d4c5477b8%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/d1c9a550-cc51-48bb-8d5b-3c6d4c5477b8%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > Garrett Honeycutt > @learnpuppet > Puppet Training with LearnPuppet.com > Mobile: +1.206.414.8658 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/f49fa010-955c-e17d-2232-95d530d80c45%40garretthoneycutt.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/20170424181910.GA20129%40iniquitous.heresiarch.ca. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
