[Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure

Thu Oct 21 07:37:37 CEST 2010

* J.A. Magallón (jamagallon at ono.com) wrote:
+> 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?).
+
+Yes, I tried to avoid it because I perfectly know mirrors will take care
+to mirror new version every 6 months (ibiblio example again, nobody had
+a look for several years, at least since 2008).
+
+> 
+> BTW
+> <nitpickin>
+> - could you kill the final 's' on all the names ? 
+>   distribs -> distrib
+
+Done
+
+>   iso (you didnt named it 'isos')
+>   peoples -> people
+
+Done
+
+>   software (not softwares)
+
+Is already 'software'
+
+> - could you not mix case in names (SRPMS <-> x86_64), just srpms...
+
+This part depend on BS and how this team working on it will organise the
+distrib. I'll suggest them.
+
+> - 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
+
+This depend again on BS part.
+
+>   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.
+
+I'll take care to this.
+
+> 
+> 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
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
+♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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