[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Mirror size

[Anssi Hannula]

On Saturday 02 October 2010 13:21:56 Olivier Blin wrote:
> Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula at iki.fi> writes:
> > On Friday 01 October 2010 13:46:36 Olivier Blin wrote:
> >> BTW, we could also consider migrating to a PLF-like tree structure,
> >> which looks better structured:
> >> 
> >> media/
> >> 
> >>   main/
> >>   
> >>     release/
> >>     
> >>       binary/
> >>       
> >>         noarch/
> >>         arch1/
> >>         arch2/
> >>         ...
> >>       
> >>       debug/
> >>       
> >>         arch1/
> >>         arch2/
> >>         ...
> >>       
> >>       source/
> >>     
> >>     testing/
> >>     
> >>       ...
> >>     
> >>     updates/
> >>     
> >>       ...
> >>     
> >>     backports/
> >>   
> >>   contrib/
> >>   
> >>      ...
> >>   
> >>   non-free/
> >>   
> >>      ...
> > 
> > The problem with that layout is that it doesn't really work well with
> > media.cfg, so we'd need changes in the format as well if this layout is
> > chosen.
> > 
> > (think where to place media.cfg and what it would contain)
> 
> media.cfg would still be in media/media_info

It can't, as media.cfg is per-arch.

Of course changing the format (making it noarch, containing arch-specific 
subsections or something) is an option, but one couldn't use the distrib tree 
with older releases, then.

> PLF is already using a similar layout with no issue, what would be the
> problem exactly?

They are currently using a hacky approach; there is a *second* tree that is 
more mandriva-like and only contains media.cfg files (which in turn causes 
other problems on devel->stable migration as they are referencing the distro 
version in the repository paths (think 
"../../../../realtree/cooker/foo/media_faa")).

-- 
Anssi Hannula