[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op maandag 29 november 2010 02:06:13 schreef Olivier Thauvin:
> * Thomas Backlund (tmb at iki.fi) wrote:
> > So the mirror medias accordingly to all comments so far would be a
> > simple:
> > 
> > * core
> > 
> >   - enabled by default
> >   - mirrors must mirror this media to be listed as a mirror
> >   - only GPL stuff
> >   - must be selfcontained
> > 
> > * nonfree
> > 
> >   - disabled by default, installer will ask to enable it if
> >   
> >     it detects hw that need driver/fw from here...
> >   
> >   - mirrors must mirror this media to be listed as a mirror
> >   - contains apps/drivers/firmware that are free to redistribute,
> >   
> >     but we dont have GPL source for
> >   
> >   - for example ati/nvidia drivers/firmware, Oracle Java, ...
> > 
> > * tainted
> > 
> >   - disabled by default
> >   - mirrors are free to not mirror this media
> >   - stuff we think we can redistribute, but that may have some
> >   
> >     patent issues or other restrictions in oter countries.
> 
> I can't agree with the "mirrors are free to not mirror this media",
> three reasons:
> 1) I don't see an easy and safe way for mirrors to exclude a media (a
> directory + hdlist in media/media_info) in each distribution,
> 2) I don't know how urpmi can manage this, all medias are described in
> only one file, to detect something is missing
> (media/media_info/media.cfg).
> 3) I tried to act as rules that a valid is a mirror containing
> everything, to not have to deal with a lot of mirrors style.
> 
> Regards.

actually, when i was working on my urpmi-proxy, i noticed that the media.cfg 
file is easily changed (can be made to merge)

and for this to work, we still need urpmi mirrorlist function that works well, 
by just getting those from another mirror