[Mageia-sysadm] things to do for release

Fri May 27 17:28:32 CEST 2011

On Fri, 27 May 2011, nicolas vigier wrote:
+
+> On Wed, 25 May 2011, Michael Scherer wrote:
+> 
+> > Le mardi 24 mai 2011 à 21:35 +0200, nicolas vigier a écrit :
+> > > On Tue, 24 May 2011, nicolas vigier wrote:
+> > > 
+> > > > - upload trees and isos on primary mirror on private directory
+> > > 
+> > > For this, does anyone know what this means exactly ?
+> > 
+> > I guess "copy the tree on a directory not exported, check this is using
+> > hardlink for package, make sure that others files ( such as hdlist ) are
+> > not hardlink in order to prepare for the release by doing mv".
+> > 
+> > I spoke about this with Nanar, and the idea is to minimize the data to
+> > transfert by using hardlink on rpms, as they are all already on mirror
+> > ( since they are in cauldron ). This save the time needed to letting
+> > people take the release, since rsync will not transfer them again. 
+> > 
+> > However, this can be used only for rpm files, and not for hdlist, for
+> > others files, etc, since they will be updated on cauldron and we do not
+> > want to have them changed on stable as a side effect.
+> 
+> So we can do something like that :
+> 
+>  - copy cauldron directory to directory .tmp-mageia-1
+>  - rsync cauldron to .tmp-mageia-1 until release day
+>  - on release day, we make hardlinks between files from '.tmp-mageia-1'
+>    and '1' directories
+>  - files in directory '1' become immediatly available on mirrors (as they
+>    are hardlinks to files in .tmp-mageia-1 already uploaded)
+>  - after a few days we remove .tmp-mageia-1
+> 
+> Does it look correct ?
+
+Ok, after discussing with Nanar, this is not what we will do. We will do
+what was described by misc, hardlink rpms between cauldron and stable.
+And Nanar will prepare a script to do it.
+
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