* J.A. Magallón (jamagal...@ono.com) wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:34:24 +0200, Olivier Thauvin > <nanar...@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?).
Yes, I tried to avoid it because I perfectly know mirrors will take care to mirror new version every 6 months (ibiblio example again, nobody had a look for several years, at least since 2008). > > BTW > <nitpickin> > - could you kill the final 's' on all the names ? > distribs -> distrib Done > iso (you didnt named it 'isos') > peoples -> people Done > software (not softwares) Is already 'software' > - could you not mix case in names (SRPMS <-> x86_64), just srpms... This part depend on BS and how this team working on it will organise the distrib. I'll suggest them. > - 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 This depend again on BS part. > 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. I'll take care to this. > > 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... > > -- > J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com> \ Software is like sex: > \ It's better when it's free -- Olivier Thauvin CNRS - LATMOS ♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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