New mirror layout for the merged core and extras

Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
Thu Apr 5 21:56:46 UTC 2007


On Thursday 05 April 2007 04:52:02 pm Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:40:14PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > I've tossed together a quick rundown of a new mirror layout for the
> > merged core and extras.  You can find it here:
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/CoreExtrasMerge#head-d370223
> >ce90e602f6d5c4bf3584bd20800da68b6
> >
> > Any feedback would be appreciated.  This could be expected to go live as
> > early as Monday Apr 9th.
>
> Looks nice, thanks!
>
> Two comments:
>
> o relative symlinks with '../' are doomed to break on mirrors, as
>   content is usually split around volumes as needs arise, so I would
>   suggest to not use any such symlinks.
>
> o mirrors should be prepared for that switch, but currently only core
>   and extras subfolders are exported to them via rsync. It would make
>   sense to open up rsync modules (for the mirrors) at the linux
>   hierarchy as soon as possible, so the mirrors can adjust before the
>   layout switch. The nice side effect would be that mirrors could use
>   the same rsync module for mirroring other content, too, like liveos
>   or epel stuff.

epel is a whole different tree.  branched off at /pub/ so your proposal wont 
expose epel

-- 
Dennis Gilmore, RHCE




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