[mirror-admin] upcoming disruption in rawhide, F17-branched

[John 'Warthog9' Hawley]

It could be hoped that they are doing it like Debian and basing it on
the first letter of the package name, otherwise humans going looking for
specific packages are going to have a hell of a time finding anything.

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley

On 01/19/2012 08:46 AM, Chris Schanzle wrote:
> On 01/19/2012 10:23 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> At the request of assorted mirror people, we're changing the layout of
>> the
>> tree slightly.
>>
>> Instead of Packages/<20,000 packages>, we're intending to hash the
>> packages
>> by first letter.
>>
>> You will get:
>>
>> Packages/a/<some packages>
>> Packages/b/<some pacakges>
>>
>> etc.
>>
>> We're intending to start this with the initial landing of the F17
>> branched
>> tree. However, we'd also want to do this in rawhide going forwards. We
>> can
>> start this switch at any time, but it would be a bandwidth-intensive
>> event
>> for mirrors whenever we do it. Is there a preference for switching
>> rawhide
>> a) when we branch F17 b) a week before we branch F17 c) tomorrow...?
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> -- 
> 
> 
> It wouldn't be bandwidth-intensive if you created the hashed directories
> via hardlinks, even for just one day.
> 
> Curious - if you know off the top of your head - what's the hashing
> algorithm/tool?
> 
> -- 

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