On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 02:20:23PM +0200, Michael Schroeder wrote:
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:58:47PM +0200, Robert Schiele wrote:
It would be a very good idea if you argued why you think this is a bad idea. Just postulating this does not really convince me.
Actually I don't need to convince you. You need to convince me.
No, I don't need. If Novell insists in keeping all of the vital infrastructure of the openSUSE project prorietary and you exploit that fact refusing to keep the discussion on a senseful level by not providing arguments for your opinions then I should most likely opt out at this point. In that case every further minute I invest here seems to be a complete waste of time and I should prefer investing that time in preparing my move to Vancouver. So you might want to think about how to communicate effectively. I confess that I might be wrong sometimes in my opinion but as long as you don't tell me _why_ you think I am wrong, I have to assume that I am not. Playing "You are wrong but I won't tell you why, guess again!" was something I did stop a short time after I left the kindergarden.
Actually the contents file as shipped from the drpmsync server is an index over the repository. So what's actually wrong with shipping it _with_ the repository. I mean you are also shipping repository meta data although they could be provided by a proprietary protocol server as well.
What you're saying is like "the rsync server should put the contents on disk".
Whoever puts it there. It should be visible through traditional protocols like rsync to support mirrors that do not run drpmsync _without_ the need to contact a single point of failure server before.
I just changed the format of the on-disk filelist. It now includes an id and a md5sum. Please update to the current svn version. It now also supports on-disk filelist gzip compression.
That's fine. Now we still need to _have_ this file somewhere on the disk to make use of that.
(As you can see I'm working in your direction, so that we can easily add a drpmsync.filelist file)
Very good. Now if you could provide arguments for your opinions on a regular basis this could make discussions much less annoying. Robert -- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@uni-mannheim.de "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."