[Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure

Wed Oct 20 18:40:49 CEST 2010

Le 20/10/2010 18:34, Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
+> Hi,
+> 
+> You can find here:
+> http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/
+> the current mirror tree proposal.
+> We now have to discuss it, I think.
+> 
+> Here notes:
+> 
+> The 'mageia_timestamp' is a file updated on the main server every 5
+> minutes. It allow to check is a mirror synced or not
+> 
+> Comparing to mandriva there is no more split between devel/stable, all
+> distributions goes into distribs/ and all isos file into iso/.
+> 
+I've seen that the distribs directory has sub-directory called stable1
+and cauldron, will this sub-directory will be present in iso/ too ?
+
+> The updates/ tree disapear, avoiding some possible dependencies issues
+> in updates rpms.
+> 
+> The peoples/ directory is dedicated to contributors and must allow
+> anyone to share files related to the distribution (testing rpms,
+> preworks) in an unofficial ways.
+> How this can be setup in practice still have to be discuss.
+> 
+> Finally the software/ directory should allow you to distribute the
+> tarball (not rpm) for software we do. As soon we do free software people
+> must be able to distribute our code in the same way any projects does.
+> Replies like "svn is readable" or "we have rpm" is not appropriated.
+> 
+> Now come the question: "what is a valid mirror ?", eg, what a mirror
+> should have as file to be valid ?
+> 
+> I suggest to not give the choice and avoid mistake by saying except
+> "peoples" a mirror must respect the whole tree to be valid.
+> This mean everything must exists with this structure under the top level
+> path.
+> This way may avoid issues like mandriva on ibiblio (only 2005 and 2007.1
+> seems to exists...)
+> ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/mandriva/Mandrivalinux/
+> 
+> Comment and idea welcome.
+> 
+> Regards.
+> 
+
+Nothing else to say
+
+Regards
+-- 
+Marianne (Jehane) Lombard
+Mandriva User - Mageia french translation team
+Inside every fat girl, there is a thin girl waiting to get out (and a
+lot of chocolate) - Terry Pratchett
+