[mirror-admin] syntax of filenames in the repository?

[Carlos Carvalho]

Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) wrote on 24 July 2009 11:55:
 >On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 15:23 -0300, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
 >> 
 >> Are there rules for names of files and directories in the fedora
 >> repository? If so, where can I find them?
 >
 >There aren't any rules written down that I'm aware of, just lots of
 >built up history, which we tend to change from time to time to attempt
 >to streamline things and lower confusion on our users' behalf.
 >
 >What in particular were you interested in and I can try to supply some
 >info.

Case in point is the exclusion of .~tmp~ I did because of the ibiblio
bug. However, if there are legitimate files/dirs in the repo with
.~tmp~ in the path our mirror will be incomplete, which a tier 1 is
not allowed to be. OTOH, if .~tmp~ cannot be part of any names I can
exclude it without risk, and for all sites we ever update from.

General rules are necessary because different mirrors may use
different names for the partial dir.

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