[Mageia-dev] Mirror list for apps (LONG mail)

Wed Nov 3 20:28:59 CET 2010

Le mercredi 03 novembre 2010 à 20:05 +0100, Fabrice Facorat a écrit :
+> 2010/11/3 Olivier Thauvin <nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org>:
+> 
+> > Keeping this format is more simple, just changing the line specifiying
+> > basis url in URPMI.
+> 
+> And allow to keep compatibility with urpmi without maintaining too much patch
+> 
+> > By changing the the format we can add features, make it clearer, etc...
+> > But changing format to what ? XML ? YAML ? CSV ? something worst ? :)
+> > Changes can done later.
+> 
+> if really you want to change this you should :
+> - ditch the url in favor of a XML-RPC or REST calls
+
+Given the fact we have slightly less ressources than Mandriva and that
+people on Mandriva side ( or at least, that's what I remind that fcrozat
+told me ) didn't have the ressources to have a more complex system, we
+should avoid this.
+
+> - by doing this you will be able to user whatever version or name for
+> the distribution. Indeed by using an url, you have to avoid space, or
+> too fancy names. On top of that you can change too much the format
+
+You can use space in a url.
+ 
+And if we use a XML-RPC api, we will not be able to change it either, so
+that trading the impossibility of changing the format for the
+impossibility to change the API.
+
+> So product.id could be kept unchanged, but the way urpmi talk to the
+> mirror provider could be improved.
+> Last but not least, by using XML-RC or REST calls, we could filter the
+> output of mirror list ( for example retrieve the list of mirror for
+> cooker in EU zone )
+
+This could be done on the client side. On the client side, this would
+mean a little bit more bandwidth used, a little more cpu, and on our
+side, it would be less CPU. And I think cpu is a more rare ressources
+than bandwidth.
+
+In fact, doing this on the client would be better on the privacy side.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+