On 26 June 2015 at 10:11, Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear all, > So the UMDL script currently supports three ways of crawling the tree: > * file > * rsync > * directory > > We, in Fedora, are only using the last one. I believe the `rsync` mode was added > to support Ubuntu and the file mode is basically a simplified version of the > directory mode, but that we do not use at at the moment. > > I would like to propose that we drop support for rsync. I feel that it may be > simpler and easier to create an UMDL and a crawler for each distro that would > like to use MirrorManager than maintaining a one-script-fits-all UMDL that is > in fact tested for only one of the scenario. > That being said, if we ever have interest from Ubuntu, CentOS or any other > communities, we should definitively look into making the UMDL and crawler as > re-usable as possible for them, but keeping the distro-specific bits separated. > I thought rsync was added for speed versus Ubuntu and that we actually use it a lot on the crawlers... because that is the reason we needed to move the memory usage up.. it uses a lot of memory but takes a lot shorter period to 'crawl' or am I conflating two different things? Also the CentOS guys have expressed interest in using mirrormanager in the past (like 6-9 months ago?) but I don't know their present interest. > > Looking forward hearing your thoughts about these points and questions, > Thanks, > > Pierre > > _______________________________________________ > infrastructure mailing list > infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
