[Mageia-sysadm] changing binrepos

[nicolas vigier]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Christiaan Welvaart wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, nicolas vigier wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Christiaan Welvaart wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, nicolas vigier wrote:
>>>
>>>> So I think we could replace binrepos svn with something like this :
>>>>
>>>> - on valstar, a script to upload a file, accessed by ssh using "mgarepo
>>>>  upload". The script saves all files in the same directory, using
>>>>  sha1sum for the filename. And the directory is accessible by http.
>>>
>>> What happens when a file with the same sha1sum already exists?
>>
>> It is used and doesn't need to be uploaded again.
>
> That's of course fine when the 2 files are identical but if they're not 
> you'll have a broken repository.

In theory it's possible, but in practice I don't think we'll see two
meaningfull files with the same sha1sum.

But if it happens we can use a tar.gz file instead of tar.bz2, or
something else to have a different sha1sum.