[indiana-discuss] Distro query

[Stephen Hahn]

* Martin Man <Martin.Man at Sun.COM> [2007-12-17 13:50]:
> Stephen Hahn wrote:
> >* Anil Gulecha <anil.verve at gmail.com> [2007-12-13 13:40]:
> >>*There is no way currently to mirror the data from pkg.opensolaris.org
> >>currently. I am told work is underway to allow this and I'm waiting
> >>for this too.
> >
> >  The image packaging "protocol" is a series of GET and POST operations
> >  over HTTP.  Writing a mirroring program should be a relatively simple
> >  exercise in either shell or Python, depending on which API you wish to
> >  use.  Using the Python APIs will help the image packaging effort have
> >  interfaces of higher utility.  
> >
> >  That is, the data is already available to mirror.
> 
> I belive that in the long run this should be as simple as rsync(1)-ing a 
> dir... When I see this GET/POST + python magic to move bits from A to B 
> it makes me think of over-engineering and reinventing the wheel :-))

  In the long run, I agree with you; in the short term, I would much
  rather:
  
  - know that the APIs are convenient for new uses,

  - stress the pkg.depotd server as much as possible, and

  - not have to run another service until the development phase is
    ended.

  That is, we don't learn anything from running rsync--we know that it
  will work.

  - Stephen

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