[Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure

Thu Oct 21 01:43:23 CEST 2010

On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:34:24 +0200, Olivier Thauvin <nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> wrote:
+
+> Hi,
+...
+> 
+> Now come the question: "what is a valid mirror ?", eg, what a mirror
+> should have as file to be valid ?
+> 
+
+Some ideas (probably silly ;)).
+
+Why don't you split mirrors in 2 categories:
+- Software (RPM) repo mirrors, available for network install or urpmi.
+  (distrib+people+software).
+- ISO mirrors. Avaliable for torrenting or ftp. MDV2010.1 release isos are
+  about 15Gb. With 2 releases per year, thats 30Gb per year, 200 Gb on 6
+  years. Some places can just mirror this...you lower the 700Gb to 500,
+  not bad.
+
+so mirroring can be done by version (or was this what you wanted to avoid?).
+
+BTW
+<nitpickin>
+- could you kill the final 's' on all the names ? 
+  distribs -> distrib
+  iso (you didnt named it 'isos')
+  peoples -> people
+  software (not softwares)
+- could you not mix case in names (SRPMS <-> x86_64), just srpms...
+- could be the arch names more uniform ? in my personal scripts/setups
+  I use x86-32 and x86-64. Moreover, perhaps in a not so near future some
+  adventurous soul builds Mageia on ARM or Sparc, so why not sort things
+  like
+    distrib/cauldron/srpm
+    distrib/cauldron/x86/32/iso
+                           /rpm
+                        /64
+                    /arm/32
+                        /64
+                    /sparc/32
+                          /64
+  The drawback is that ISOs are in the same tree so no separate mirroring
+  is possible, but I think you didn't want this anyways.
+
+All this renaming in case it is not some kind of standard for tree layout
+or the like...
+</nitpickin>
+
+Just my 2€cent, you will judge...
+
+-- 
+J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com>     \               Software is like sex:
+                                         \         It's better when it's free
+