[Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure

Thu Oct 21 19:36:07 CEST 2010

Op woensdag 20 oktober 2010 18:34:24 schreef Olivier Thauvin:
+> 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/.
+> 
+> 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.
+
+
+i didn't follow the whole previous discussion about the mirror tree, but would 
+it be advisable to have a noarch subdir, next to i586 and x86_64 ?
+
+it would mean that if you use i586, you'd need noarch too; and the same thing 
+with x86_64; but imo, the setup might use a little less storage or it'd be 
+easier set up; and less hacks required?
+
+if you'd do a dual arch CD; you could easily have noarch, i586 and x86_64 next 
+to eachother; imo.
+
+also, if we split up more packages to use noarch for content stuff or xxx-doc 
+subpackages or whatever...
+