Re: Hosting and repo layout

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote : > This is what it would look like when we want to replicate the Fedora > layout (example only for el5 and Fedora 8/development; both only i386 to > keep things simple): > . > `-- free > |-- el > | |-- 5 > | | `-- i386 > | | |-- all_the.rpms > | | `-- repodata > | `-- testing > | `-- 5 > | `-- i386 > | |-- all_the.rpms > | `-- repodata > `-- fedora > |-- development > | `-- i386 > | `-- os > | `-- repodata > |-- releases > | `-- 8 > | |-- AddOn > | | `-- addon.i386.iso > | |-- Everything > | | `-- i386 > | | `-- os > | | |-- all_the.rpms > | | `-- repodata > | |-- Live > | | `-- coolspin.i386.iso > | `-- RPMFusion > | `-- i386 > | |-- iso > | | `-- rpmfusion_spin.iso > | `-- os > | |-- repodata > | `-- subset_of_everything.rpms > `-- updates > |-- 8 > | `-- i386 > | |-- all_the.rpms > | `-- repodata > `-- testing > `-- 8 > `-- i386 > |-- all_the.rpms > `-- repodata > Benefits: > - people are used to the layout > - room for spins, add-on CDs > Disadvantage: > - might be more complicated than actually needed > > Comments? Why "free" (and I suppose another similar tree for nonfree) at the root?

[...] The other thing we need to be sure about before deciding on the tree is if we want to have a frozen "release" set of packages, known to be compatible with the original CD/DVD images plus updates, or if we want to be a moving target, only compatible with release+updates, possibly making our repositories incompatible with the original CD/DVD images at some point, unless users also enable updates at install time.

I'd prefer going with a frozen "release" set of packages, from which we can also later make a CD or DVD image, to make it possible to install RPM Fusion packages on computers which aren't connected to the network.