package distribution crisis

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 09:04:22PM -0500, Mirrors wrote:
> I'm sure I'm jumping in this late... But.
> 
> Not sure if anyone has looked, but the Fedora project now has a complete 
> mirror managment system that controls making sure all the mirrors are 
> up-to-date..
> 
> I can get more info if anyone would like it

More info would be of some interest.  If nothing else this is directly
counter to my personal experience with Fedora mirrors which is that they
are regularly completely busted and that the format of the metadata on the
mirrors seems to be designed to insure this is the case.

-- Brooks

> 
> On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Dan Langille wrote:
> 
>> On Apr 8, 2008, at 7:45 AM, Daniel Niculescu Logofatu wrote:
>>> How about a RDBMS solution? Would it be posible to have the entire 
>>> repository on a RDBMS? Like postgresql?
>> 
>> 
>> Yes it is possible.   But why would you want to do that?
>> 
>> -- 
>> Dan Langille -- http://www.langille.org/
>> dan at langille.org
>> 
>> 
>> 
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