[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Mon Nov 29 02:42:58 CET 2010

Op maandag 29 november 2010 01:51:38 schreef Michael Scherer:
+> Le dimanche 28 novembre 2010 à 22:12 +0200, Thomas Backlund a écrit :
+> > 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.
+> 
+> damned, if I had seen this mail sooner, I would not have written my 200
+> lines one ( that took 36 hours to write ).
+> 
+> I agree with this split.
+
+I can agree with this; however i think that:
+ - i would add extra with the unmaintained packages (and not remove them); 
+mirror would be free not to mirror that media as well and disabled by default
+ - core would be too big (mirror size + hdlists size + search time) (a games 
+split up is what i would recommend to alleviate this problem)
+