[csw-maintainers] Garbage collection in allpkgs

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Maciej,

Am 01.01.2013 um 12:00 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński <maciej at opencsw.org>:
> 2012/12/31 Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org>:
>>>>> 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.

I was pretty sure we discussed this on maintainers, but as I couldn't find
the post this probably happened on IRC which you may have missed. There was
quite some discussion on the layout and AFAIR everybody was fine with the extra
rsync URL not being the default, so I wrongly assumed you also were
part of the discussion.

> 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.

Yeah. I added a note to
  http://www.opencsw.org/get-it/mirrors/
about the extra rsync URL. As always I should have done this in the first place :-(


Best regards

  -- Dago

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