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<H1>[Mageia-sysadm] changing binrepos</H1>
<B>Michael Scherer</B>
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<I>Fri Jul 15 19:00:33 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>Le mercredi 13 juillet 2011 à 17:11 -0300, Carlos Carvalho a écrit :
><i> nicolas vigier (<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-sysadm">boklm at mars-attacks.org</A>) wrote on 13 July 2011 18:09:
</I>><i> >I think current binrepos is not really perfect :
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> >- Using separate repository for each release require having multiple
</I>><i> > copies of some files
</I>><i> >- removing old binary files from history is easier than before, but
</I>><i> > still not very simple
</I>><i> >- Using the same directory structure as packages (with current and
</I>><i> > releases directories) in binrepos is not very usefull I think
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> >So I think we could replace binrepos svn with something like this :
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> >- on valstar, a script to upload a file, accessed by ssh using "mgarepo
</I>><i> > upload". The script saves all files in the same directory, using
</I>><i> > sha1sum for the filename.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Having a single directory tree for all versions instead of separating
</I>><i> releases in different trees is better; that's what Debian does. One of
</I>><i> the advantages is that it allows a single file to be part of more than
</I>><i> one release and avoids a lot of hardlinking, which is error-prone.
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I think you are speaking of mirrors, and we are speaking of the build
system.
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Michael Scherer
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