MirrorManager mirrorlist parameters

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 11:50:57AM -0400, Ricky Zhou wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:15:47AM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > Specifically what did you have in mind?  We might be able to do this 
> > with mod_rewrite.
> Well, I'd like to have
> http://mirrors.fp.o.org/mirrorlist?arch=i386&release=f7&type=dvd&redirect=1
> Return a mirror with .../releases/7/Fedora/i386/iso/F-7-i386-DVD.iso and
> http://mirrors.fp.o.org/mirrorlist?arch=i386&release=f7&type=live&redirect=1
> go to .../releases/7/Live/i386/iso/F-7-i386-DVD.iso, and so on.

Interesting idea. The database doesn't know anything about file
"types" right now, pretty intentionally.  Doesn't mean we can't add
such, but that will add complexity and possibly additional maintenance
burdens.

How would you expect to handle sets of media (e.g. downloading 3 CD
ISOs that are in the releases/7/Fedora/i386/iso/ directory as opposed
to a single DVD ISO)?

-Matt

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Matt Domsch
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