On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:19:55AM +1200, Tim Foster wrote:
...
> On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 14:01 -0700, Edward Pilatowicz wrote:
...
> > > > ----------
> > > > src/util/apache2/sysrepo/sysrepo_publisher_response.mako
>
> > > [ I'd like to keep it around in the meantime if nobody objects, as it
> > > makes testing the server code a little more straightforward, and has
> > > some interesting possibilities for the future (like using the system
> > > publisher as one-stop proxy for common groups of pkg publishers) ]
> > >
> >
> > sure.  in that case can we just not install it by default?  perhaps have
> > it installed by the pkg developer package?
>
> We could - what's the rationale for not including it though?  As is, the
> sysrepo provides enough functionality out of the box to act as an
> easy-to-configure proxy cache for http, https and file repositories
> (even without the sysrepo-aware client code)
>

i thought the file wasn't used for sysrepo functionality and according
to the XXX comment it would expose GZ repository paths to a NGZ.  hence
i suggested removing it.

> Without this file, it still gets to act as a proxy cache for http and
> https repositories - it just drops support for file:// repos.  It seems
> weird to omit file repo support here just because we can?
>

so to be clear.  if we remove this file, do we lose the ability to proxy
file:// repos into a zone?  if so then imo this file is not optional,
instead it's critical to correct zone operation.

ed
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