Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Dec 2 23:00:56 UTC 2009



On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Peter Jones wrote:

> On 12/02/2009 05:58 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Peter Jones wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/02/2009 03:53 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>>>>> 3. replace static mirrors with proxy-ing of kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org
>>>>> (make sure it works with web infrastructure instead of fighting it)
>>>>
>>>> I don't think that would work fine with a lot of our mirrors.
>>>
>>> I think it probably /could/ if we put some (relatively major) work in
>>> on the server side to make it look like the directories it isn't. Not
>>> that I'm endorsing such a plan.
>>
>> we'd have to make all our mirrors use that.
>>
>> not gonna fly.
>
> Well, you just wouldn't get the benefits of this if you're using a mirror.
>
> Which, yes, is pretty lame.

we won't get the benefits in fedora then. Our mirror infrastructure is a 
HUGE reason why we can do what we do.

If we can't farm things out to our mirrors then we might as well go home 
b/c our users will NEVER be able to get our bits.

-sv




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