On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 09:21:05AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 9:17 AM Adrian Reber <adr...@lisas.de> wrote:
> >
> > Recently a bug was opened to add additional repositories to
> > MirrorManager for epel-next. One of the problems with adding new
> > repository definitions to MirrorManager is that the definitions are part
> > of the code. For each new/changed repository a new release is needed.
> >
> > I was thinking about changing this for a long time. Have the repository
> > definition in a configuration file.
> >
>
> Making this a configuration file would also make it easier to adopt in
> other projects. For example, it's still bandied about for openSUSE.
> The hardwired definitions in the codebase are a problem, though.
>
> > During the last months I have been rewriting umdl in Rust after the
> > first two MirrorManager tools rewritten in Rust proofed to be really
> > reliable during the last 1.5 years.
> >
> > The new tool, scan-primary-mirror, is already used in RPM Fusion for a
> > few weeks and now with the need to have epel-next repositories I
> > replaced umdl only for EPEL also in Fedora.
> >
> > So far it seems to work correctly. The epel-next repositories have been
> > detected and all other metalinks have also been updated correctly.
> >
> > Please let me know if something around EPEL metalinks is not working as
> > expected.
> >
>
> Are these tools packaged in Fedora yet?
The mirrorlist-server part is packaged in Fedora which also contains the
second tool, generate-mirrorlist-cache. The new, scan-primary-mirror, is
not.
Adrian
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