[Mageia-dev] Repository question: where do we put non-free+tainted RPMs?

Wed Jul 13 06:55:27 CEST 2011

On 12 July 2011 23:14, Renaud MICHEL <r.h.michel+mageia at gmail.com> wrote:
+> On mardi 12 juillet 2011 at 22:48, andre999 wrote :
+>> I noticed that all packages in "tainted" contain ".tainted." in the name.
+>> rsync permits adding the option
+>> --exclude '.tainted.'
+>> to permit excluding such packages if a mirror wants to.
+>
+> You should not do that, because you will end up with a broken repository, as
+> the hdlist files will contain references to files which are not present on
+> the mirror.
+> A repository must be mirrored entirely or not at all.
+
+Yes, but then tainted is a separate repo, mirror admins can simply not
+mirror it if they want (that was one of the reasons why it _is_ a
+separate repo). So not mirroring tainted wouldn't break anything
+(other than that users won't get the full set of repos, but that's up
+to each mirror admin to decide, we only offer the option).
+
+>
+> (And I think it is already enough work for the mirror maintainers to have to
+> exclude some directory, they surely don't want to maintain per mirror custom
+> rules)
+>
+> --
+> Renaud Michel
+>
+
+
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+