[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Mon Nov 29 02:39:56 CET 2010

Op maandag 29 november 2010 02:06:13 schreef Olivier Thauvin:
+> * Thomas Backlund (tmb at iki.fi) wrote:
+> > So the mirror medias accordingly to all comments so far would be a
+> > simple:
+> > 
+> > * core
+> > 
+> >   - enabled by default
+> >   - mirrors must mirror this media to be listed as a mirror
+> >   - only GPL stuff
+> >   - must be selfcontained
+> > 
+> > * nonfree
+> > 
+> >   - disabled by default, installer will ask to enable it if
+> >   
+> >     it detects hw that need driver/fw from here...
+> >   
+> >   - mirrors must mirror this media to be listed as a mirror
+> >   - contains apps/drivers/firmware that are free to redistribute,
+> >   
+> >     but we dont have GPL source for
+> >   
+> >   - for example ati/nvidia drivers/firmware, Oracle Java, ...
+> > 
+> > * tainted
+> > 
+> >   - disabled by default
+> >   - mirrors are free to not mirror this media
+> >   - stuff we think we can redistribute, but that may have some
+> >   
+> >     patent issues or other restrictions in oter countries.
+> 
+> I can't agree with the "mirrors are free to not mirror this media",
+> three reasons:
+> 1) I don't see an easy and safe way for mirrors to exclude a media (a
+> directory + hdlist in media/media_info) in each distribution,
+> 2) I don't know how urpmi can manage this, all medias are described in
+> only one file, to detect something is missing
+> (media/media_info/media.cfg).
+> 3) I tried to act as rules that a valid is a mirror containing
+> everything, to not have to deal with a lot of mirrors style.
+> 
+> Regards.
+
+actually, when i was working on my urpmi-proxy, i noticed that the media.cfg 
+file is easily changed (can be made to merge)
+
+and for this to work, we still need urpmi mirrorlist function that works well, 
+by just getting those from another mirror
+