Meeting Log - 2007-09-27

[Mike McGrath]

Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 03:47:00PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
>   
>> 2007-09-27T14:02:40  <mmcgrathbot> mmcgrath: #170 (Hosting respins)
>>     
>
>
> May I suggest we create a directory structure for the spins that can
> fit in with the directory structure on the master mirror servers?  In
> this way, we might be able to move content back-and-forth between the
> two trees without completely screwing up mirrors.
>
> What do I mean?
>
> Here's the current tree at pub/fedora/linux/releases/ :
>
> pub/fedora/linux/releases
> |-- 7
> |   |-- Everything
> |   |   |-- i386
> |   |   |   `-- os
> |   |   |       |-- Fedora
> |   |   |-- source
> |   |   |   `-- SRPMS
> |   |   |       `-- repodata
> |   |   `-- x86_64
> |   |       `-- os
> |   |           |-- Fedora
> |   |-- Fedora
> |   |   |-- i386
> |   |   |   |-- iso
> |   |   |   `-- os
> |   |   |       |-- Fedora
> |   |   |-- source
> |   |   |   |-- SRPMS
> |   |   |   `-- iso
> |   |   `-- x86_64
> |   |       |-- iso
> |   |       `-- os
> |   |           |-- Fedora
> |   `-- Live
> |       |-- i386
> |       `-- x86_64
>
> For spins posted on spins.fedoraproject.org, I'd want it to have a
> similar structure:
> pub/fedora/linux/releases
> |-- 8
> |   |-- Games
> |   |   |-- i386
> |   |   |   |-- iso
> |   |   |   `-- os
> |   |   |-- source
> |   |   |   |-- SRPMS
> |   |   `-- x86_64
> |   |       |-- iso
> |   `-- OtherRandomSpin
> |   |   |-- i386
> |   |   |   |-- iso
> |   |   |   `-- os
> |   |   |-- source
> |   |   |   |-- SRPMS
> |   |   `-- x86_64
> |   |       |-- iso
>
>
> Surely we can figure out how to torrent the ISOs directly from the ISO
> directories then.
>
> It may seem extraneous, but this would let us move a popular spin from
> spins.fp.o onto the master mirror with little difficulty for our
> mirrors; likewise we could move less-popular spins from the master
> mirror over to spins.fp.o.
>
> And, if we ran rsync on spins.fp.o, we could let people mirror that
> content via rsync instead of torrent-only.  We wouldn't expect our
> Fedora mirrors to do so, but we wouldn't prevent it either.
>   


Good point. I had thought spins.fp.o would only be containing ISO's do 
you think SRPMS and such will also be hosted there?  Is there a reason 
we'd have to host them there?

    -Mike