Legacy mirror structure

[Jesse Keating]

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On Monday 19 January 2004 03:17, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> can i sugest going with a common format used my most mirrors  that way
> what is on the fedoralegacy server will match that of the mirrors.  I
> plan on having a mirror of Legacy if the deal with the hosting company i
> have been dealing with works out.

I fail to see a common format across most mirrors.  Half have a /pub, half 
just start with /redhat, some have /pub/mirrors/redhat, some have 
/linux/redhat/linux, etc..  The way I was structuring my system, is so 
that mirror folks can chose their own top dir to rsync against, and append 
their own dirs leading up to that top dir.  After that top dir of their 
choice, then everything should be the same.

> I wouldnt worry about the symlink to SRPMS   but would put in the RPMS
> dir then break down to archs for example
>
> download.fedoralegacy.org/pub/fedoralegacy/7.3/RPMS/i386/legacy-addons
> download.fedoralegacy.org/pub/fedoralegacy/7.3/RPMS/ppc/legacy-addons
> download.fedoralegacy.org/pub/fedoralegacy/7.3/SRPMS/legacy-addons

That breaks metadata structure.  Why would you have a seperate update conf 
line for the SRPMS?  SRPMS and RPMS for the given section should exist 
within the same tree, hence the SRPM link back.  That way, one could run 
say yum-arch (replace this with the new metadata tool) at
/redhat/7.3/i386/updates/  and it will gather all the rpms in RPMS/ as well 
as the srpms in SRPMS/.  This makes each 
"base|updates|updates-testing|legacy-addons" a complete unit for a update 
tool config line.

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