[Mageia-sysadm] changing binrepos

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and nicolas vigier at 13/07/11 20:30 did gyre and gimble:
> 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.

Just to be sure, why not make the file name "sha1sum-size", that way
you're massively decreasing the likelihood of an sha1sum clash.

Col

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