[Mageia-sysadm] Starting packages import in Mageia svn

Tue Jan 11 18:41:59 CET 2011

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 17:32, nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org> wrote:
+> On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
+>
+>> On 11 January 2011 18:01, nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org> wrote:
+>> > 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 ?
+>>
+>> That sounds like a the way to go
+>
+> Actually after talking with blino, he thinks using a database for
+> packages status is not such a good idea :
+>
+> "we don't need a database, that will only make everything more complex
+> for little advantage..."
+>
+> One advantage is that it's easier to access from an other host (better
+> than nfs export I think). But I don't know if that's enough.
+
+The main difference is that you lose ability to use info in anything
+not able to talk to the db (like a shell script)
+Also any manual intervention from admins will need an interface or
+doing some sql instead of using rm
+
+If someone volunteers to patch iurt for that, why not, but I think
+it's overkill to have a db to store a few items at a time
+