[arch-dev-public] dbscripts pkg pools

[Roman Kyrylych]

On 2010-05-03, 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.

I like this.

>
> 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.

I fail to see why resyncs are not needed in this situation.
Let's suppose we have /foo/bar on a downstream mirror,
and upstream has /foo/bar -> /baz/bar
will rsync guess that it should not download bar and instead just copy
it from foo to baz locally?

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)