[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

[Thomas Backlund]

Hi,
As we are getting closer to actually have something to mirror it's time 
to get this decided.

And the deadline for theese discussions is December 5th, 2010 in
order to get a decision on the board meeting on December 6th, 2010.


Now this is a somewhat problematic topic but needs to be decided.
This has already been discussed in two threads:

First off we have the "basic) part:
"Mirror tree structure" by Olivier Thauvin
https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/20101020/001286.html

And the other part (that gives some problems):
"Mageia repository sections, licenses, restrictions, firmware etc" by 
Anssi Hannula.
https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/20101012/001084.html


Now, in order to get somewhere, here is a suggestion that tries to find 
a middle ground or base for discussions...

Now this toplevel part seems to be ok by everyone:
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Mageia/
       /distrib/
               /cauldron/
               /stable1/
       /iso/
           /cauldron/
                   /i586/
                   /srpms/
                   /x86_64/
           /stable1/
       /people/
       /software/
------


Then we come to the "problematic" part:
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/x86_64/
        /media/
              /codecs/ (disabled by default)
              /core/ (old main+contrib)
                   /backports/ (disabled by default)
                   /backports_testing/ (disabled by default)
                   /release/
                   /testing/ (disabled by default)
                   /updates/
              /extra/ (unmaintained, disabled by default)
              /firmware/ (disabled by default)
              /games/ (disabled by default)
              /non-free/ (disabled by default)
              /debug_*/ (disabled by default)
-----

The idea of this layout with some of the separate sections (codecs, 
firmware, games, non-free, debug_*) gives a mirror maintainer in a 
country (or company) the option to exclude the parts they legally (or by 
company policy) can not mirror.

The "core" should be only maintained free/libre stuff so it's easy to 
build a free/libre iso

"extra" is for those packages that no-one really maintain, but is still 
used by someone

"games" are now a separate repo since it can grow fast with a lot of 
game data.


So,
Comments / Thoughts...

--
Thomas