Regarding the Mirror structure and Fedora Legacy

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Thu Oct 9 19:48:52 UTC 2003


Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Thursday 09 October 2003 06:36, Jef Spaleta wrote:
> 
>>>The current discussion between RH people and the interim Fedora
>>>Legacy planning team [1] seems to be that Legacy will not publish
>>>packages within the regular Fedora mirror structure. Instead both
>>>RH and Legacy want users to consciously change their configurations
>>>to point to the new location when a distribution hits the point of
>>>EOL, in order to make it clear that the packages are coming from a
>>>different source than those officially published and supported by
>>>RH the company.
> 
> 
> Thats almost misleading.  My personal request was that while our updates 
> wouldn't go in the same _directory_ as those provided by Red Hat, we 
> would have another folder in the tree just for us, so that once the 
> folder RH controls is no longer populated, our folder would begin to be 
> populated.  Not sure if this is feasible or agreeable by Red Hat, I'm 
> still waiting to get on the mirror list.
> 
> 

Oh, sorry, I misunderstood.  I guess we're both waiting for solid 
answers though.

Warren





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