New repository format [Re: Nowy format przyrostowego repozytorium?]

[Patryk Zawadzki]

2008/2/15 Pawel Golaszewski <blues w pld-linux.org>:
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Jakub Piotr Cłapa wrote:
>  > > mod_dav_svn is unlikely to exist on mirrors too.
>  > And that's why there will be no mirrors. The indices would be in one
>  > central repository and only the packages would need to be mirrored.
>  >
>  > Poldek (or a separate tool) would connect to it's prefered mirror,
>  > download the mirror revision in a text file and ask the repo for this
>  > revision of indices. This way we can also handle outdated mirrors.
>  no mainsite == no updates
>  Great.

Nope, you are free to mirror the whole svn or a single checkout
between machines.

>  Simple BGP problems or machine broken and whole distro is down. And it
>  can't be mirrored...

Can be easily mirrored and you are free to provide a different (not
svn-based) location for repodata.

>  Now I can easy make my own indexes. With svn there is problem - I have to
>  prepare all the svn stuff. Now I can have simple place for own web-page
>  and everything works. With svn I need much bigger rights.

See above.

>  It would be better to think about bit-torrent distribution.

Not really.

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Patryk Zawadzki
PLD Linux Distribution