Proposal for new frozen repositories server

[Daniel Drake]

On 7 February 2011 17:23, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
> Dan,
>
> If I recall correctly, the old system was designed with a couple of goals in
> mind including:
>
>  a) to help OLPC meet its GPL obligations to offer source code for the
>     binaries it has distributed
>
>  b) to lessen the risk of schedule slippage due to Fedora downtime (e.g.,
>     resulting from security incidents or hardware failures),
>
>  c) to establish other conditions necessary for build reproducibility, (like
>     knowing what packages went into each build), and
>
>  d) to lessen the risk of undetected build data corruption (at rest or in
>     transit) due to Murphy
>
> Are these still goals that you're trying to meet?
>
> (It's a little bit hard for me to tell from your proposal.)

Thanks for stating the goals - I will document them as part of this project.

I had not considered them explicitly like that, but at the same time
I'm intentionally trying avoid large changes to the system. I don't
feel like any of them have been lost in the proposal.

After re-reading Scott's mail I added a couple of points here, which I
missed the first time:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:DanielDrake/NewMockProposal#Disadvantages_of_new_system

I also made the addition of offering rsync:// to the koji. repos.

Daniel