On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Pascal Bleser wrote:
> >> If there is interest in this topic, I might prepare some slides to
> >> give a "speed talk" on this at FOSDEM.
> >
> > I have been thinking of an xml file that could include all
> > installation sources. Think http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/, but with GeoIP
> > included.
> >
> > Unfortunately my knowledge of XML (and using it) is very limited. I
> > would very much talk to people about this on FOSDEM and see what can
> > do what and how. If I would have had more knowledge, I would have had
> > a working example.
>
> Sure, we'll find some time to discuss that during FOSDEM. I'm pretty
> experienced with XSLT, I'm sure I can contribute something to the idea
> ;)
>
> Could you make a few slides about it to introduce the topic during the
> speed talks ? We'll fork a short BOF from that, with some people
> interested in the topic (count me in).
>
> > I understand that the file (or at least not all of it) might not be
> > allowed on openSUSE or Novell. It could be hosted somewhere else. Yet
> > that could be decided at FOSDEM (and after the standard for the XML is
> > fixed)
>
> Yes, we first have to discuss what information would be useful in there,
> then write a schema for it, then collect the data.
>
> Another option would be to write a script (or a Java application or
> whatever) that uses that XML file to validate the mirrors (e.g. using
> HTTP HEAD and/or browsing the various URLs to see whether the mirrors
> listed in the file actually have the required content). Would be very
> useful to report broken mirrors, at least to a given point, it shouldn't
> crawl all subdirectories and collect all files, just some files like
> "directory.yast" and "content".
... no need to reinvent the wheel -- download.openSUSE.org already does
"some magic" to keep a local state cache of the mirrors, ie. it knows if a
file is on a mirror or not and actually checks this prior redirecting ;)
Anyway -- I'll prepare some slides on the current download.openSUSE.org
technology ;) Houghi, will you prepare some slides as well? Maybe we can
merge them and present them together?
Regards
Christoph
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