[Mageia-sysadm] repoctl

Fri Feb 10 20:47:28 CET 2012

On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Pascal Terjan wrote:
+
+> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 19:18, nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org> wrote:
+> > Hello,
+> >
+> > I started work on a new tool to manage package repositories :
+> > http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/repoctl/trunk/
+> >
+> > This tool allow to :
+> >  - move / delete / list packages from repositories
+> >  - lock a repository before modifying it
+> >  - generate hdlists for repositories that have been modified
+> >  - generate a file with sha1sum of important files before mirroring
+> >
+> > You can see the command available with repoctl --help.
+> >
+> > Things planned next :
+> >  - make a package and install this tool on valstar to start using it
+> >  - update youri to use it when moving packages to the repository
+> >  - remove update of hdlists and mirroring from youri, and replace this
+> >   by a repoctl call by cron every 4 or 5 minutes, so that hdlists are
+> >   not generated 3 times if 3 packages are uploaded in 3 minutes
+> 
+> This means we can no longer know when a package is available.
+
+If we know when the package was finished, and the last time the mirror
+was updated, we can know if it is available.
+
+> Currently they wouldn't be generated 3 times, as the 2 other packages
+> would be finished while genhdlist is still running for the first one,
+> and it would run once for both.
+> What is the point of making upload slower?
+
+Hmm, so I was wrong and it was not a good idea.
+
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