I just cannot believe they would do this without any warning for the end 
user community, whether open-source or commercial customers.  Look at other 
open-source projects like Fedora and Ubuntu for an example; they would send 
warnings at least two weeks in advance before turning off a service that 
has been around for years.

/Brian/

On Monday, April 24, 2017 at 2:19:22 PM UTC-4, Christopher Wood wrote:
>
> 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 
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