On Wednesday 22 July 2009 14:14:32 Jesse Keating wrote: ... > > > Churn on the mirror configs and the repo files, > > > > That much sort of sucks, yeah, but meh. We change it at least once > > anyway though, going from rawhide to release, so is one more change > > here a huge undertaking? (I ask because have no idea) > > Well every change has potential to break users who have had to do some > customization, and it hurts 3rd party repo setups. It'd be nice to > install a repo config at Alpha and have the paths used remain useful and > valid through the entire release. Would make it easier to attract users > at Alpha/Beta and not suddenly drop them off the face or drag them into > the next rawhide. ... > > Of course, most mirrors are auto-updating via rsync, so perhaps that > > doesn't translate particularly well... But it would also make it easier > > for mirror admins who don't want to mirror anything but the actual > > released releases. > > Yeah, sucks for mirrors. If you don't do hardlinks for a while first, > they'd have to re-sync the entire pile of packages. And if you're going > to do the hardlink dance, might as well use the base location first. > Most of our mirrors tend to use the fedora-enchilada path so we're not > likely to break too many expectations by having something in releases/ > change, any more than by having something in releases/test/ change. ... > This is why we'll set the expectation of the release on having the > Fedora/ path show up. Since that's really what signifies the release, > having gpg signed checksummed isos show up, and torrents getting turned > on, etc.. > > There will have to be some expectation changes, but really the kind of > people digging at raw mirror paths are going to be the kind of people > that can adjust their expectations. All good points... Okay, I think I've been sufficiently convinced that dropping the bits into /pub/fedora/linux/releases/ is just fine after all. Thank you for the enlightenment. ;) -- Jarod Wilson jarod@xxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
