On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Benoit des Ligneris wrote:
> Anyway, what I am asking then is simply a change in the OSCAR release
> mechanism so that the master repository listing is included in the
> tarball at build time. Even better, the master repository listing can be
> put in the main OSCAR CVS tree instead of into www/repository ?
>
> Maybe in oscar/oscarsamples/oscar_repositories.xml ?
I still do not think that this is a good idea. See my previous text:
"If you include a cached repository file in the OSCAR distro, the
installed version will have a timestamp of whenever you ran "make
install", not the timestamp when the distro was made (and the
file was cached). Therefore, opd will think that it has a recent
copy and not try to download it again. Hence, the first time the
user installs OSCAR and opd launches, it is guaranteed to be the
local copy (and possibly out of date)."
If you want to hack to fix this, go ahead, but as I also said earlier:
"My $0.02 is that this is spending way too much effort for a rare
problem, which is why I won't implement it. :-)"
Let's remember: OPD was down the other because of *my* mistake, not
SF's. I'm not saying that SF is perfect, but making an arbitrarily
complex system for a problem that rarely occurs hardly seems worth it
to me.
> On another level, maybe we can migrate this file in
> oscar.openclustergroup.org/repository/ with an automatic anonymous
> update of this file directly from the SF CVS repository ?
>
> This way (with some delay !) any OSCAR developper will be able to
> add/update the repository listing (daily update + SF cache = 2-3 days).
Any OSCAR developer can add/update a repository instantaneously now...
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