[Mageia-sysadm] Starting packages import in Mageia svn

Tue Jan 11 18:01:22 CET 2011

On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Michael Scherer wrote:
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+> > > Could we manage to have it moved to alamut ? ( like a nfs export,
+> > > something like that, but no php on valstar, please ).
+> > 
+> > It will be more slow, and complicated. And maybe less secure if we need
+> > to add nfs exports.
+> 
+> I fail to see how a read-only nfs export between 2 computers in LAN will
+> be less secure than a http server running on the internet.
+> 
+> And maybe it will be slow, yes. But given the fact that the web
+> interface is doing a exec+find on each request, this is gonna to be
+> slower than a regular database ( where there is index, query
+> optimisation, cache and others niceties ). 
+> 
+> And if we decide to use a database instead of doing the same old way
+> ( find + filtering ), then we could perfectly move it outside of valstar
+> ( ie, place the logs output on alamut in pgsql, easier to clean ( a sql
+> query ), better security ( different server ), etc ).
+
+After thinking more about this, I think I agree that it would be much
+better to run it on alamut. Especially if using a SQL database for
+packages status.
+
+Maybe once BS is ready, we can work on updating tools to use a database,
+and migrate the web interface on alamut at that time ?
+
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