2012/12/31 Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]>: >>>> I'm not sure what you mean by downstream-sites selecting what to >>>> offer. >>> >>> Official sites mirroring our packages. >> >> I was asking what do you mean by selecting what to offer. Downstream >> sites I understand. >> >>>> The primary mirror has a set of files, and that's it. >>> >>> Not quite. There are all files in the filesystem avaialable for download. >>> However, if you rsync "opencsw" you won't get allpkgs/, so almost all >>> of the official mirror sites don't mirror allpkgs/. >> >> So there's a set of file that you get when you rsync and that's it. If >> you rsync, you don't get to choose, you get what you it's given to >> you. If you don't, then you're not a full mirror. > > You are completely missing the point here. Please try > rsync rsync://mirror.opencsw.org/opencsw/ > and compare this to > rsync rsync://mirror.opencsw.org/opencsw-full/
I don't think I've ever come across the opencsw-full URL. Our conversation could have been: Me: "I'm not sure what you mean by downstream-sites selecting what to offer." You: "There are 2 directories you can sync, /opencsw and /opencsw-full, it's documented at <url>." It would have saved us confusion. > The former does not include allpkgs/, the latter does. By choosing the rsync > URL > you as downstream mirror decide if you want to include allpkgs or not although > it is on the filesystem of the primary. This is rsync-magic. Trust me! :-) > >>>> People >>>> can make snapshots from different points in time, is that what you >>>> mean? >>> >>> No, that is different. We don't do this ATM, but archive catalog-files, >>> so if someone has a specific problem we can regenerate everything >>> from that catalog and allpkgs/ and this is another reason why I think >>> having allpkgs is a Good Thing™. >> >> Did we ever do that? Did we even exercise doing this? I think that in >> a real situation we would do something else rather than recreating a >> past catalog. Do you have a specific scenario in mind? For example, we >> have a bad, I don't know, MySQL. What would make us recreate an old >> catalog from archives, rather than selectively solving the problem at >> hand? > > I did a couple of times. Fair enough then. Maciej _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
