This page enumerates the known steps for the planned migration of sourceware services from the PHX2 to the RDU2 colocation facility.

Status is indicated with ☐☑☒ check boxes.

• ☑ provision new hardware (2018-03: completed: 2 identical Dell PowerEdge R630, 2cpu*16core*2smt=64 cpus, 256GB RAM, 10*600GB HDD in RAID6)
• ☑☑ named server2.sourceware.org and server3.sourceware.org
• ☑☑ install centos7 (2018-03)
• ☑☑ reinstall centos8 (2019-10-02)
• ☑☑ install /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
• ☑☑ firewalld setup (firewalld driving nft nftables)
• ☑☑ fail2ban (sshd 'jail') Fail2BanPolicy
• ☑☑ mdmonitor

Redundancy setup:

• ☑☑ cron auto-rsync of old-sourceware payload dirs to server & server3 RedundancyPolicy
• ☑ server2 pushing to server3 for new /sourceware and /root partitions
• ☐ set up off-site rsync backup too

Install software to support all services: SoftwarePolicy

• ☑ Enumerate and install the slew of non-default RPMs on old sourceware
• ☑ mechanical replication of sourceware /etc/passwd, /etc/groups SUBSET to new boxes UseridPolicy
• ☑ review old users, esp. shell/root users, for 'emeritus' status
• ☑ /etc git tracking
• ☐ cron jobs (as systemd timers!)
• ☑ git
• ☑ svn (svn+ssh:, svn:)
• ☑ cvs
• ☑ ftpd (vsftpd)
• ☑ httpd
  • ☑ https://cygwin.com/
  • ☑ https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=curl&arch=x86_64
  • ☑ https://sourceware.org/bugzilla
  • ☑ https://sourceware.org/git
  • ☑ https://gcc.gnu.org/
  • ☑ https://gcc.gnu.org/git
  • ☑ cygwin gitwebs (git-cygwin-packages and git2)
  • ☑ cvsweb/svn (redirecting /rABCDEF and /viewcvs?rev=ABCDEF queries into gitweb)
  • ☑ patchwork (account alive, but old django / old python block function)
  • ☑ git over http:// and https:// -- now with smart transport
  • ☑ moinmoin wiki (required nuking all python2.6 caches & symlinks); still no searching
  • ☑ ikiwiki wiki (many dependent perl libs built as rpms)
  • ☑ mnogosearch
• ☑ metahtml (?!) (gcc-wwwdocs invoked tool to populate /www/gcc/htdocs) (binary copied from old-sourceware)
• ☑ certbot
• ☑ email into bugzilla BugzillaMailman
• ☑ rsyncd
• ☒ gerrit -> deprecate
• ☑ xapian (perl2 + perl3? for ikiwiki, moin; built from hand-modified xapian-omega tarball/spec from upstream)
• ☑ qmail -> postfix (including .qmail -> .forward home directory files)
• ☑ mysql (contains bugzilla, spamassassin) -> migrate to mariadb via mysqldump
• ☑ spamassassin
• ☑ ezmlm -> mailman (underway)
• ☑ sshd
• ☑ irkerd (irker 2.18 in /usr/local/src*)
• ☑ /qmail/alias/.qmail-gcc-bugzilla-account-request -> /etc/aliases ?

Switchover:

• ☑ DNS PTR for server2/3, including ipv6
• ☑ month of: announce switchover date
• ☑ month of: move primary DNS service to new server
• ☑ month of: shorten DNS TTLs
• ☑ week of: announce outage schedule
• ☑ day of: shut down most network services
• ☑ day of: last mysqldump BACKUP.sh (30+ mins to generate, hours? to apply)
• ☑ day of: remount /sourceware1 read-only on old server to freeze it during move
• ☑ day of: last rsync
• ☑ day of: archive last rsync copy of sourceware/root, /sourceware1 as read-only on new box
• ☑ day of: update DNS
• ☑ day of: give server2 the DNS A/CNAME alias of sourceware.org
• ☑ day of: update server3->server2 local rsync
• ☑ day of: mass rename /home/*/.qmail -> .forward
• ☐ get remote console access
• ☐ PROFIT