[mirror-admin] rsync and updates-testing -> updates-released

[Jesse Keating]

On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 22:18 -0300, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> Hurray!
> 
> There's nothing crazy, it's just a much better way to do. It'd get rid
> of the entire mess of hardlinks.
> 
> That's how Debian does it.
> 
> You can also join all the archs together, since the arch is in the
> name of the packages. Those who exclude archs would just have to make
> a small change in their exclude patterns. You could post the
> conversion example on the mirroring instructions page.
> 
> It's even possible to join releases, as Debian does. The advantage is
> that packages that are the same among releases only need to appear
> once in the repository. However this makes it hard to exclude a
> release, it needs detailed knowledge on the repository structure.
> Further, since you say the sign key changes, the same file
> cannot be used for more than one release; thus this level of merging
> doesn't seem to be useful for fedora.

I got some resistance to using relative dir information in the repodata,
so instead we could still put all the packages for updates in a single
dir, and make hardlinks further into updates vs testing and then create
metadata from the hardlinks.  It'll look like duplicate data, but due to
hardlinks they transfers won't care.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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