olpc rpm repository and fedora mirror

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 09:23 -0400, John Watlington wrote:
> On May 8, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Holger Levsen wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > as far as I can tell, OLPC uses it's own rpm repository for  
> > customized rpms
> > for the xo build.
> >
> > How can I add packages there, for the server? Or should we create a  
> > seperate
> > repository for the server rpms?
> 
> Please create a separate repository for the server rpms.   The  
> laptops will
> be updating themselves from the server, meaning that OLPC's repository
> is mainly for development.   The server update strategy is different  
> --- both in that
> it will support incremental updates and those updates will be pulled  
> from a
> centralized repository.   Down the road, there will be a number of  
> country
> repositories.
> 
> > Currently I created "my own" repository on xs-dev.laptop.org, but I  
> > think it
> > really belongs on dev.laptop.org - you agree?
> 
> DNS names are cheap, keep using xs-dev.  We will, however, have to move
> xs-dev to a machine in the colo.
> 
> > Same goes for a fedora mirror, is there one on dev.laptop.org or  
> > elsewhere at
> > laptop.org/MIT?
> 
> ?
> 
> Comments ?
> wad

Someone just needs to setup a box to rsync a from one of the Fedora
repos.

-- 
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>