[Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure
J.A. Magallón
jamagallon at ono.com
Thu Oct 21 01:43:23 CEST 2010
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:34:24 +0200, Olivier Thauvin <nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> wrote:
> Hi,
...
>
> Now come the question: "what is a valid mirror ?", eg, what a mirror
> should have as file to be valid ?
>
Some ideas (probably silly ;)).
Why don't you split mirrors in 2 categories:
- Software (RPM) repo mirrors, available for network install or urpmi.
(distrib+people+software).
- ISO mirrors. Avaliable for torrenting or ftp. MDV2010.1 release isos are
about 15Gb. With 2 releases per year, thats 30Gb per year, 200 Gb on 6
years. Some places can just mirror this...you lower the 700Gb to 500,
not bad.
so mirroring can be done by version (or was this what you wanted to avoid?).
BTW
<nitpickin>
- could you kill the final 's' on all the names ?
distribs -> distrib
iso (you didnt named it 'isos')
peoples -> people
software (not softwares)
- could you not mix case in names (SRPMS <-> x86_64), just srpms...
- could be the arch names more uniform ? in my personal scripts/setups
I use x86-32 and x86-64. Moreover, perhaps in a not so near future some
adventurous soul builds Mageia on ARM or Sparc, so why not sort things
like
distrib/cauldron/srpm
distrib/cauldron/x86/32/iso
/rpm
/64
/arm/32
/64
/sparc/32
/64
The drawback is that ISOs are in the same tree so no separate mirroring
is possible, but I think you didn't want this anyways.
All this renaming in case it is not some kind of standard for tree layout
or the like...
</nitpickin>
Just my 2€cent, you will judge...
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