[Dev] Website Maintenance

[Alejandro Hernández Petermann]

"  for Friday (2017-10-20)  " October?? It's January, right? xD


On 17/01/17 21:22, Luke Shumaker wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jan 2017 14:20:59 -0500,
> Luke wrote:
>> Just a notification that scheduled website maintenance is underway
>> 1/14/17 to fix security issues and migrate parts of our services to
>> another server.
>>
>> Expect temporary downtime while maintenance while this is underway.
>>
>> Join #parabola IRC on freenode to keep up with the latest events.
>>
>>
>> Luke
> 
> The scheduled maintenance/migration is completed.
> 
> Notes about maintenance:
> 
>  - Proton rebooted and had downtime, but not due to the maintenance.
>    Ask n1m4d for details.
> 
>  - There was still a logging hiccup around the reboot because of
>    collectd starting before the timesync.  It seems that timesyncd is
>    sending READY=1 before it has actually synced, which is wrong.
> 
> Notes about migration:
> 
>  - repo and repomirror have moved from Proton to Winston.  Some users
>    may continue to hit Proton for these; the DNS records have 24hour
>    TTLs.  Proton will continue to function in this capacity (although
>    outdated) for as long as necessary (until at least Friday).
> 
>  - www.parabola.nu/packages is not updating since migrating.  The
>    solution is to either move www to Winston, or to expose Proton's
>    PostgreSQL to the network (either the Internet, or lvpn (Proton is
>    on lvpn, Winston is currently not) and have reporead run on Winston,
>    talking over the network to Proton's PostgreSQL.
> 
>  - The libretools' libretools.conf default for REPODEST= will no
>    longer work; the authority-part needs to be changed to
>    repo at repo.parabola.nu; though packagers might prefer to use
>    repo at winston.parabola.nu if they do not yet see the DNS changes
>    from their DNS server.  A libretools release with updated defaults
>    is blocked by a systemd bug, but should be coming soon.
> 
> Ongoing work:
> 
>  - The above reporead and libretools issues.
> 
>  - I'm hereby scheduling another maintenance for Friday (2017-10-20)
>    to:
>     * Update parabola-hackers(-nshd) on Winston
>     * Deploy parabola-hackers(-nshd) on Proton
>     * Generally -Syu Winston.
>     * Possibly deploy holo-files on both.
> 
> --
> Happy hacking
> ~ Other Luke
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