[fab] Secondary Arches

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Thu Nov 16 18:24:46 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 13:10 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> seth vidal (skvidal at linux.duke.edu) said: 
> > Actually there are two pieces:
> > packages push from build master to fedoraproject.org - those get rsynced
> > to download.fedora. The reason we don't just push directly to
> > download.fedora is that there isn't, apparently, any way to do that from
> > outside.
> > 
> > It is a more work than it should be.
> 
> To draw a little picture, when you build a package for Extras, the road
> it takes is:
> 
> - your box (make upload)
> - Phoenix (cvs.fedora)
> - Duke (build master)
> - Phoenix (build boxes)
> - Duke (build master)
> - RDU (mirror master)
> - Phoenix (mirrors)
> 
> It isn't the most efficient process.

And the reason I've been big on some pieces staying outside of red hat
colo space is simple: this way if some VP at red hat decides to be
stupid they can't shut fedora down.

They have to get legal involved to come to duke to get us to shut down a
piece.

I like that.

-sv






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