Buildsys issues

[Warren Togami]

seth vidal wrote:
>>How about something entirely different.  Rather than distributing 
>>thousands of files from repoview, instead make a central website that 
>>displays info about the packages.  It could be either database generated 
>>dynamic or pre-generated static pages.  One official site can have all 
>>of this package info, and the source exists for anybody to make their 
>>own mirror easily.
> 
> 
> 
> 1. the point of the repoview format was to be mirrorable
> 2. it was intended to be infrastructure-less and to work with the
> existent layout of things.
> 3. distributing this info out onto the mirrors means we do not have a
> single point of failure - like we have with fedoratracker and friends.
> Any mirror is browseable using this layout.
> 

How about making generation asynchronous but keeping everything else the 
same?  That would be an improvement over what we currently have.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com