Re: MirrorManager mirrorlist parameters
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 04:08:32PM -0400, Ricky Zhou wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 01:38:20PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> Interesting idea. The database doesn't know anything about file
> "types" right now, pretty intentionally. Doesn't mean we can't
add
> such, but that will add complexity and possibly additional maintenance
> burdens.
>
> How would you expect to handle sets of media (e.g. downloading 3 CD
> ISOs that are in the releases/7/Fedora/i386/iso/ directory as opposed
> to a single DVD ISO)?
Hmm, good point. I was thinking that the form could specify a file path
such as:
filepath=/pub/fedora/linux/releases/%(rel)s/Fedora/$(arch)s/iso/F-$(rel)s-$(arch)-DVD.iso
You can specify
redirect=1&path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/iso/....iso
already, and it works. If some javascript creates that URL, cool.
However, as I've learned, paths do change, and code that generates
paths then needs to change too.
And the script would substitute the proper values based on the
rel/arch
parameters. For sets of media, the filepath would go to the directory
containing all of the images.
I'm mostly unsure about how spins/the get-fedora page will work (and if
the directory structures/spin names will remain consistent between
releases), so depending on these factors, it might or might not be
useful.
Tell you what. For the F7 and F8 get-fedora page, let's just be
simple and put hardcoded links to the content, in a table format to
make it clear. We can then look to do fancier things in the future.
I don't want to make a bunch of MM changes at this point in the F8
release if I can avoid it.
Thanks,
Matt
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Matt Domsch
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