[arch-dev-public] dbscripts pkg pools

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
>> On Sun, 02 May 2010 18:10:40 +0200, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de>
>> wrote:
>>> What about a directory structure like this? We could also remove the os
>>> subdir and backwards compatibility could be achieved by some symlinks.
>>>
>>> ftp
>>> └── repo
>>>     ├── arch
>>>     │   ├── core
>>>     │   ├── extra
>>>     │   ├── packages
>>>     │   └── testing
>>>     └── community
>>>         ├── community
>>>         ├── community-testing
>>>         └── packages
>>>
>>> The actual names might not be final, but with this structure we separate
>>> our repos from everything else on the ftp and we separate the "official"
>>> and community repos from each other.
>>
>> Here is a proposal which is more backwards-compatible and doesn't need a
>> complete resync; just a few modificatinos to the db-scripts. (e.g. we need
>> to define which repos the cleanup-script should check)
>>
>>  ftp
>>  ├── core
>>  ├── extra
>>  ├── testing
>>  ├── community
>>  ├── community-testing
>>  └── packages
>>     ├── arch
>>     │   ├── i686
>>     │   ├── x86_64
>>     │   └── any
>>     └── community
>>         ├── i686
>>         ├── x86_64
>>         └── any
>>
>> The top dir repo dirs are kept. They include symlinks to the packages in
>> the packages dir. Packages from community are kept separate. We now just
>> need to modify the db-scripts and define the repository names it should
>> work on. (especialy the cleanup-script should only search in core,extra and
>> testing but not community for example.
>>
>> The community, community-testing and packages/community dirs would still
>> be rsynced from sigurd.
>>
>> What do you think about this layout? It wont need any chagne on the
>> clients (mirrorlists still work) and no resyncs are needed.
>
> In the spirit of this, I broke out the "packages" dir to a variable so
> that we can change it:
> http://code.phraktured.net/cgit.cgi/dbscripts/commit/?h=pkgpools&id=ee4074de910df5c637691ace06ec5a9d475fb4a3
>
> On gerolde, it'd be packages/arch and on sigurd, packages/community (in theory)

Though... we'd still need to get rid of that silly "os" dir as part of this.