[Mageia-dev] mirror policy & howto updates

Tue Mar 1 17:40:37 CET 2011

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 14:28, Olivier Thauvin
+<nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> wrote:
+> * Romain d'Alverny (rdalverny at gmail.com) wrote:
+>>  * have a clear expiration policy (hard to define before having the
+>> support policy setup)
+>
+> This cycle cannot be less the support time of a distrib, but the distro
+> can be archived later. At time I don't know what the support policy...
+> hard to said much, indeed.
+>
+>>  * have an archive section in the mirror
+>
+> What is this for ?
+
+To move its contents to cheaper/slower storage systems. It's related
+to above expiration policy: "expired" stuff would go into the archive
+section.
+
+>>  * keep on explaining the "tainted" section outcomes, so mirror admins
+>> have better facts & info to decide
+>
+>>  * provide clear rsync modules to help admins quickly pick up what
+>> fits best for them.
+>
+> Since all mirrors sync their tree from tier1, and we don't have the hand
+> on tier1 servers, we cannot provides rsync share as we want...
+
+Well, the question was to ease tier1 admins in this regard. But we
+might as well just provide guidance and ready-to-use script for tier2
+and others.
+
+Romain
+