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? I'd prefer to not separate free/nonfree completely, just users
enable or disable either easily, and mirror admins be able to exclude
"nonfree" and be done with it. Making them be two completely separate
trees/websites/etc will only make things overly complex for nothing.
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.
Matthias
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