[Mageia-sysadm] things to do for release

[nicolas vigier]

On Wed, 25 May 2011, Michael Scherer wrote:

> Le mardi 24 mai 2011 à 21:35 +0200, nicolas vigier a écrit :
> > On Tue, 24 May 2011, nicolas vigier wrote:
> > 
> > > - upload trees and isos on primary mirror on private directory
> > 
> > For this, does anyone know what this means exactly ?
> 
> I guess "copy the tree on a directory not exported, check this is using
> hardlink for package, make sure that others files ( such as hdlist ) are
> not hardlink in order to prepare for the release by doing mv".
> 
> I spoke about this with Nanar, and the idea is to minimize the data to
> transfert by using hardlink on rpms, as they are all already on mirror
> ( since they are in cauldron ). This save the time needed to letting
> people take the release, since rsync will not transfer them again. 
> 
> However, this can be used only for rpm files, and not for hdlist, for
> others files, etc, since they will be updated on cauldron and we do not
> want to have them changed on stable as a side effect.

So we can do something like that :

 - copy cauldron directory to directory .tmp-mageia-1
 - rsync cauldron to .tmp-mageia-1 until release day
 - on release day, we make hardlinks between files from '.tmp-mageia-1'
   and '1' directories
 - files in directory '1' become immediatly available on mirrors (as they
   are hardlinks to files in .tmp-mageia-1 already uploaded)
 - after a few days we remove .tmp-mageia-1

Does it look correct ?