[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Mon Nov 29 14:28:38 CET 2010

* Thomas Backlund (tmb at iki.fi) wrote:
+> Olivier Thauvin skrev 29.11.2010 03:06:
+>> * Thomas Backlund (tmb at iki.fi) wrote:
+>> 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,
+>
+> Thats easy, just use --exclude-from
+>
+> On my local mirror I exclude the debug stuff
+> so I use --exclude-from=excclude.lst
+>
+> # cat exclude.lst
+> i586/media/*debug*
+> i586/media/media_info/*debug*
+> x86_64/media/*debug*
+> x86_64/media/media_info/*debug*
+>
+> And thats all needed.
+> We can even provide this exclude file ourselves on the mirrors so we  
+> know its correct and if we change the mirror layout, we update the file.
+
+Completly not realist on mirror admin side.
+
+You really have to remember that first mirror admin job is not maintains
+mirrors. They have often hundred of users on their back waiting for
+fixes.
+
+When such will go wrong, nobody will be able to check and fix.
+
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
+♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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