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

[Thomas Oulevey]

Please note noarch seems to have the same redirect.

-- 
Thomas

On 8 janv. 2013, at 12:23, "Pádraig Brady" <P at draigBrady.com> wrote:

> 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:
>> 
>> 
>> http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack/openstack-grizzly/fedora-17/SRPMS/
>> 
>> http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack/openstack-folsom/fedora-17/SRPMS/
>> 
>> They seem to point to empty subdirectories.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>>             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.