[Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure

Fri Oct 22 02:07:53 CEST 2010

2010/10/22 Olivier Thauvin <nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org>:
+>
+> 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).
+
+I think this is an easy one. Do it like it was done at Mandriva.
+Define what a "valid" mirror is, then list only "valid" mirrors.
+Besides that people can put up mirrors in any way they want and use
+them in any way they want. They are just not listed as "official
+mirrors of Mageia".
+Same happened with our Mandriva mirror. I wouldn't mirror the /debug
+branches, so I was told that my mirror was not official and it was
+taken from the list. Everybody was happy, the maintainers of the list,
+me, and all people who used my mirror (it was not crowded, even at
+release time). A solution suitable for everybody.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+