[Mageia-sysadm] progress of the night

Thu Nov 25 20:29:53 CET 2010

* Olivier Blin (mageia at blino.org) wrote:
+> Olivier Thauvin <nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> writes:
+> 
+> > * Olivier Blin (mageia at blino.org) wrote:
+> >> Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> writes:
+> >> Todo:
+> >
+> > [...]
+> >
+> >> - setup a cronjob to mirror /distrib/repository to /distrib/mirror
+> >>   (when the cauldron repo is cleaned from Mandriva references)
+> >
+> > Why don't we write directly to the tree given to mirrors ?
+> 
+> We will likely upload to mirrors asynchronously, not to block the build
+> system while syncing mirrors, so we need two separate trees.
+> 
+> To do this without taking too much time syncing the two trees, we can
+> use "cp -al" to make a hardlinked copy of the repository before syncing
+> to mirrors.
+
+Check --link-dest options to rsync then (widelly better).
+
+> 
+> Also, if the distrib tree on valstar is the canonical location, naming
+> it "mirror" is a bit weird :)
+
+Feel free to suggest a better name. "mirror" mean "this tree is sync by
+mirrors".
+
+However distributions don't directly into /distrib/mirrors but under
+/distrib/mirror/distrib/*. /distrib/mirror will probably contains others
+things than just a set of RPMs.
+
+Regards.
+
+> 
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+> Olivier Blin - blino
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+Olivier Thauvin
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