Problems mirroring http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack/*

[Pádraig Brady]

On 01/08/2013 10:32 AM, Jan van Eldik wrote:
> Happy New Year to all!
>
> We are using mrepo to mirror from http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack. However, mrepo chokes on these links:
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> http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack/openstack-grizzly/fedora-17/SRPMS/
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> http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack/openstack-folsom/fedora-17/SRPMS/
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> They seem to point to empty subdirectories.
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> I am not sure why mrepo chokes on them, but I am not sure if these empty directories are useful either. Other repo's (like openstack-grizzly/epel-6/) do not seem to have such a SRPMS subdir.
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>              thanks, cheers, Jan

The directories aren't empty.
They have a .htaccess with a redirect (to the parent dir) for compatability.
This was done when I consolidated the Fedora and EPEL repos
to have the same structure with non separated RPMs and SRPMs.

I can see how redirects like could be an issue for mirroring tools.
Should I just remove the SRPMS dir and not worry about compat?
Alternatively if you have a fedorapeople.org a/c you could:

rsync -az --progress -e ssh fedorapeople.org:/srv/repos/openstack/ /your/path

thanks,
Pádraig.