Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: patches.gentoo.org

[Jeffrey Forman <jforman@gentoo.org>]

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After a somewhat lengthy discussion among a couple of the infra dev's
and Nick, we came to some conclusions

(1) A single point of distribution is just a bad idea imho. Imagine a
critical patch that MUST GET OUT IMMEDIATELY (differing opinions of
'must get out now' apply). You get thousands, even tens of thousands of
people hitting patches.g.o and you can wave goodbye to that machine. 

(2) The distribution network is there for a reason. Let me be the first
one to admit that it isnt perfect. Once you place something on
/space/distfiles-local, it hits two machines before it hits the world,
taking between an hour and four hours (theoretically) to go public.
Latency is involved in whichever solution we can propose, short of
giving everyone write access to our master mirror. 

(3) Whether we use distfiles mirrors, or the rsync rotation to
distribute patches, this has not been decided upon. The idea was
broached for a couple minutes earlier today but not even a preliminary
solution was conjured. 

Infra has complete control over the rsync.g.o rotation, so coming up
with ways to improve it that way can be worked out. I am sure this will
be a topic during the next dev meeting, if not listed, I will definitely
mention it. 

My 2 infra cents...Get irate, berate, celebrate.
-Jeffrey

On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 16:10, Nicholas Jones wrote:
> And rewritten for clarity:
> 
> 1. developer creates an ebuild which needs a patch
> 2. SRC_URI="mirror://gentoo/patchname http://patches.gentoo.org/patchname"
> 3. Uploads files to dev.gentoo.org:/space/distfiles-local
> 4. developer commits ebuild(s) to cvs
> 
> Infra notes:
> 
> Immediate availability via the "secondary" host while the primary
> host has yet to receive the files. Once the file is present on the
> primary mirrors it may be deleted from the secondary.
> 
> Ensuring that the patch host is not the primary mirror will be a
> concern, but a script can be devised to ensure duplication of
> the patchname and that a primary mirror is listed prior to it.
> 
> The host for the files should not be accessable for any reason
> except direct filename downloads. No listings (to discourage
> setting it as a mirroring source).
> 
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Jeffrey Forman
Gentoo Infrastructure
Gentoo Release Engin.
jforman@gentoo.org
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