On 8/9/24 10:48, Marc Chamberlin via openSUSE Users wrote:
On 8/9/24 04:48, Andreas Stieger via openSUSE Users wrote:
On 2024-08-09 13:32, Carlos E. R. wrote:
There is no request to maintain old things, but to not delete them, to just freeze and leave an archive, out of the mirror structure perhaps. No resources from the OBS.
That is work. If you need it, do it.
Do tell? What ongoing work is needed to maintain an archive? How much work is involved to make a snapshot and archive a repository? Doesn't seem like it should involve a lot of work by someone who groks SuSE's repositories. Your suggestion "If you need it, do it" is crass and impracticable for us simple users. I imagine it would be a steep learning curve to understand the whole repository architecture, design, software, and testing procedures, let alone get qualified to make changes to the repository structures! What would take an expert a few minutes to accomplish would take me days/weeks to do.
This was a topic a few months ago. I've got to maintain a local image of many of the openSUSE repos for servicing an insular network. I've got a fairly easy way to do it using Redhat's yum program. I'll collect my notes and processes and post them here in a bit. But this would be for local use with distribution via NFS, making your repo available to the public would be another matter. Regards, Lew