repo setup [RFC]

[Carl Trieloff]

On 11/15/2011 03:54 PM, Mike Burns wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 12:33 -0800, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
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>> So the requests I have received or heard so far around "providing
>> package and tarball download locations" are:
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>> 1. ftp.ovirt.org as location with packages for various distros as well
>> as binary and source tarballs.
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>> 2. Yum repository for the Fedora packages being worked on, until they
>> get in to Fedora.
>>
>> 3. Location for different distros package management tools to find
>> packages.
>>
>> 4. Centrally maintained details (examples) of the files used for
>> different package management needs, e.g. files for /etc/yum.repos.do/ etc.
>>
>> Items 2 & 3 are essentially the same, but I wanted to call out the Yum
>> repository since it's a top priority to happen this week. :)
>>
>> Here are my proposals for this:
>>
>> A. We have a neutral package repository URL base of ovirt.org/repo.
> I agree on most of this, but I'd call it releases instead of repo
>
>

why not have releases as a subdir of repo?  As we will most likely also
have a subdir for nightly builds for example

Carl.