[Mageia-dev] Repository question: where do we put non-free+tainted RPMs?

[Renaud MICHEL]

On mardi 12 juillet 2011 at 22:48, andre999 wrote :
> I noticed that all packages in "tainted" contain ".tainted." in the name.
> rsync permits adding the option
> --exclude '.tainted.'
> to permit excluding such packages if a mirror wants to.

You should not do that, because you will end up with a broken repository, as 
the hdlist files will contain references to files which are not present on 
the mirror.
A repository must be mirrored entirely or not at all.

(And I think it is already enough work for the mirror maintainers to have to 
exclude some directory, they surely don't want to maintain per mirror custom 
rules)

-- 
Renaud Michel