Hosting and repo layout (was: Re: plague ready; next step: hosting)

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

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@thias, Pix -- what about the hosting?

@all -- repo layout?

On 07.10.2007 08:09, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> [...]
> What is missing in those mock files: the rpmfusion repo itself. Thus we
> should
> 
> a) find a agreement on a repo layout
> b) get the hosting (and the push scripts) up and running
> 
> = repo layout =
> 
> We discussed this is bit already. The "spins" discussion came
> afterwards. I'm wondering if we should just replicate the Fedora layout
> completely as people are used to it already.
> 
> = hosting =
> 
> Pix and Thias offered hosting for the repos iirc. We afaics need
> 
>  * free.rpmfusion.org -- the rpm files for the free repo and one html
> front-page with some links to the main site, bugzilla and to browse the repo
> 
>  * nonfree.rpmfusion.org -- same as free.rpmfusion.org, just for the
> nonfree packages
> 
>  * download.rpmfusion.org -- similar front-page but holds free and
> nonfree stuff and is rsync-source for mirror sites; the push scripts
> from the buildsystem should upload to this machine (or this machine
> should regularly get stuff from the buildsys -- that's how fedora does
> it afaik)
> 
> So, Pix, Thias, how do we realize that? One machine free, the other
> nonfree and download? What happens if one machines is down -- can the
> other act as fall-back? Or should we a kind of easy load-balancing to
> spread the load between the machines?
> 
> = EOF =