An exceptionally well explained rant that I find myself in total agreement with.

  • RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think that many companies have their shit together well enough to mirror the source code, besides the RHEL repos aren’t small, so that’ll cost.

    The companies I’ve helped either had a minimalist mirror to reduce the surface area of what was installable or to save on cost.

    It’s possible that a few enterprises do a full mirror of all RHEL sources, but i doubt it’s many

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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      1 year ago

      I don’t know, I’ve worked in Debian/Ubuntu companies mostly. Last two had thousands of servers and both had an apt-mirror custom repo including the deb-src ones. Otherwise we just get ourselves banned from the official mirrors when thousands of VMs pull updates from the same NAT IP.

      Not sure how that works exactly on the RHEL side, maybe it’s not nearly as easy or common to do that.