Buildsys issues

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 19:33 -0500, Warren Togami wrote:
> 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.

Isn't that what I suggested when I said we make the repoview run occur
on a regular basis on fedoraproject.org - rather than at extras-push
time?

-sv