From: Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@w3.org)
Date: Fri Jun 16 2000 - 09:25:19 EDT
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 10:47:11PM +1000, jason andrade wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote:
>
> >
> > <SNIP>
> > > - it's hard to make *any* centralized service scale
> >
> > actually i think it would be really usefull to have mirroring of metadata
> > to help on scaling rpm2html.
> >
> > i don't have the resources now, but i would make a metadata mirror as soon
> > as i get more disk (yeap, i have 100% too, seems like distributions are
> > getting really big this time)
>
> i don't quite understand this - is mirroring the metadata needed ? i produce
> my own metadata for the archive i run.. i'm not sure how mirroring daniel's
> metadata is useful unless rpmfind is (auto?)configured to look for metadata
> in a number of different places.
it is at each major upgrade it refetches the list, sort it by proximity
and when a site seems off it switches to the next one automatically.
The list have to be maintained by hand unfortunately :-(
> i'm still having rpm2html issues on solaris - i hope they get fixed one
> day but for now its just luck it appears whether it'll work or not. i
> am hoping this problem might go away when we upgrade from 2.6 -> solaris8.
There is a problem with qsort() on solaris. There is also rpm format
incompatibilities but that's not something I can handle.
Daniel
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