[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Mon Nov 29 17:11:08 CET 2010

* Samuel Verschelde (stormi at laposte.net) wrote:
+> 
+> Le lundi 29 novembre 2010 15:24:04, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> > 
+> > Le lundi 29 novembre 2010 14:56:20, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> > > - complexity over time of support because package move from main to
+> > >    contribs and viceversa. Especially when there is some backports from
+> > >    a software in main that would requires a software in contribs, etc.
+> > 
+> > Indeed, this is a pain :)
+> > 
+> 
+> It's a pain, but the policy saying a supported package must rely on other supported packages is not totally bad. I hope whatever the mirror structure we will enforce such a policy (with changes maybe, or exceptions).
+
+IMHO, the mirror structure do not have to be designed to reflect logical
+structure. At least until someone write a multidimensionnal filesystem
+able to represent all link rpms can have between them.
+
+(/me is thinking he had a wonderfull idea: ls '/deps/provides/rpm > 4.4'
+I'll introduce this into Sophie ! :)
+
+> 
+> Samuel
+> 
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+Olivier Thauvin
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