[Mageia-sysadm] Starting packages import in Mageia svn

[Romain d'Alverny]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 18:32, nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
>
>> On 11 January 2011 18:01, nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org> wrote:
>> > After thinking more about this, I think I agree that it would be much
>> > better to run it on alamut. Especially if using a SQL database for
>> > packages status.
>> >
>> > Maybe once BS is ready, we can work on updating tools to use a database,
>> > and migrate the web interface on alamut at that time ?
>>
>> That sounds like a the way to go
>
> Actually after talking with blino, he thinks using a database for
> packages status is not such a good idea :
>
> "we don't need a database, that will only make everything more complex
> for little advantage..."
>
> One advantage is that it's easier to access from an other host (better
> than nfs export I think). But I don't know if that's enough.

Case is, what would you use it for?

It would not be that complex if the build system in itself did
trigger/raise events, when it finishes to manage one particular
package (so you get a callback to act upon this and build a reporting
db).

If that's for gathering stats, you may as well generate these from a
cached log from the code you use to parse the fs and build the HTML
report page.

Romain