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As soon we do free software people +</I>><i> > must be able to distribute our code in the same way any projects does. +</I>><i> > Replies like "svn is readable" or "we have rpm" is not appropriated. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > Now come the question: "what is a valid mirror ?", eg, what a mirror +</I>><i> > should have as file to be valid ? +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > I suggest to not give the choice and avoid mistake by saying except +</I>><i> > "peoples" a mirror must respect the whole tree to be valid. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I would also exclude software/ from regular mirror, because this may not +</I>><i> requires as much redundancy than regular mirror ( ie, I doubt many +</I>><i> people will download tarball on a regular basis, and most softwre +</I>><i> project are fine with 2 or 3 mirror ). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> On the other hand, it may not add much overhead to mirrors anyway. +</I> +I like the idea to centralize everything from external point of view: eg +if you find a mageia mirror, you have everything. + +><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Something I would like to add is database dumps ( cleaned from password +</I>><i> and private information, of course ), and maybe svn backup, stuff like +</I>><i> that. So people who wish to fork our project will not have the same +</I>><i> problem as we did. +</I> +I was thinking to push svn on mirror. + +As potential problem, all these backup can add a lot of work and +bandwidth on mirrors. I am not against, I am in favor of this, but +just listing issues we can encoutered. + +><i> And this would also provides use with a "linus t" backup system :p +</I> +BTW: the misc-backup.rpm is taking a lot of place :)= + +><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > This mean everything must exists with this structure under the top level +</I>><i> > path. +</I>><i> > This way may avoid issues like mandriva on ibiblio (only 2005 and 2007.1 +</I>><i> > seems to exists...) +</I>><i> > <A HREF="ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/mandriva/Mandrivalinux/">ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/mandriva/Mandrivalinux/</A> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I would let people choose what they mirror based on version. Ie, someone +</I>><i> could mirror the last version only, the 3 last, etc, etc. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> This will likely provides enough flexibility without sacrifing too much +</I>><i> the simplicity. +</I> +In fact we have no way to deny to someone to do a partial mirror. The +question is from our point of view, do we encourage people to create +non testable mirror or untrusted mirror (not update enough to ensure +last security update get sync). + +It also make difficult the listing (eg having a gazillon of url for each +distrib, which is the current problem of easyurpmi). + +-- + +Olivier Thauvin +CNRS - LATMOS +♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖ +-------------- next part -------------- +A non-text attachment was scrubbed... +Name: not available +Type: application/pgp-signature +Size: 197 bytes +Desc: not available +URL: </pipermail/mageia-dev/attachments/20101022/6b51c82e/attachment.asc> +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="001335.html">[Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="001328.html">[Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#1327">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#1327">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#1327">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#1327">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |