Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
2010/10/22 Olivier Thauvin<[email protected]>:
In fact we have no way to deny to someone to do a partial mirror. The
question is from our point of view, do we encourage people to create
non testable mirror or untrusted mirror (not update enough to ensure
last security update get sync).
It also make difficult the listing (eg having a gazillon of url for each
distrib, which is the current problem of easyurpmi).
I think this is an easy one. Do it like it was done at Mandriva.
Define what a "valid" mirror is, then list only "valid" mirrors.
Besides that people can put up mirrors in any way they want and use
them in any way they want. They are just not listed as "official
mirrors of Mageia".
Same happened with our Mandriva mirror. I wouldn't mirror the /debug
branches, so I was told that my mirror was not official and it was
taken from the list. Everybody was happy, the maintainers of the list,
me, and all people who used my mirror (it was not crowded, even at
release time). A solution suitable for everybody.
Excellent point. As you say, a solution suitable for everyone.
Although for elements which are unlikely to be useful and take up a lot
of space, it could still be useful to exclude them from the mirrors.
A variation of this could be, for mirrors constrained by disk space, to
not keep as many older releases. For example, suppose releases are
every 6 months, supported for 3 years, for 6 supported releases. Some
mirrors might only keep 4 releases, or maybe 2, and still be considered
official mirrors by Mageia.
This would be workable, as long as Mageia required a reasonable minimum
of releases.
(I would say at least 2.)
Of course, Mageia would have to specify which mirrors only contained
some supported releases.
my 2 cents :)
- André (andre999)
