Conectiva Linux mirror service
==============================

The following is the directory structure of interest of our ftp server under /pub/conectiva.
Should you wish to become an official mirror, email mirrors@conectiva.com.br for details about
an rsync account.

(size figures are current as of Oct 20th, 2004)

Quick overview
==============

+-----------------+-----------------------+--------------------------+
| Subdir under    |  What it holds        | Size (as of 10/OCT/2004) |
| /pub/conectiva  |                       |                          |
+-----------------+-----------------------+--------------------------+
|    updates      |  Official updates     |        ~15Gb             |
|  (atualizacoes) |                       |                          |
+-----------------+-----------------------+--------------------------+
|    iso          |  Official ISO images  |        ~26Gb             |
+-----------------+-----------------------+--------------------------+
|  snapshot       | Development version   |        ~11Gb             |
+-----------------+-----------------------+--------------------------+
|   10            | Conectiva Linux 10    |        ~11Mb (*)         |
+-----------------+-----------------------+--------------------------+
|   9             | Conectiva Linux 9     |        ~27Mb (*)         |
+-----------------+-----------------------+--------------------------+
|   8             | Conectiva Linux 8     |        ~3.4Gb (**)       |
+-----------------+-----------------------+--------------------------+
|   7.0           | Conectiva Linux 7.0   |        < 1Mb (*)         |
+-----------------+-----------------------+--------------------------+
|6.0,5.1,5.0,4.2, | Conectiva Linux 6.0,  |        < 1Mb each (*)    |
|4.1,4.0          |5.1,5.0,4.2,4.1,4.0    |                          |
+-----------------+-----------------------+--------------------------+
  
(*): the "cd" subdir contents are in fact the respective ISO images
     mounted via loop devices and were not taken into account for this
     space estimate. It assumes a mirror would use the same technique.

(**): the "cd" subdirs are also ISO mounted images and were not taken into
      account for this space estimate.
      

Updates
-------
Official updates for our Conectiva Linux distro. Can change daily, and only gets bigger.

atualizacoes/
|-- 5.0:  6.4M
|-- 5.1:  6.4M
|-- 6.0:  949M
|-- 7.0:  1.1G
|-- 8:    1.4G
|-- 9:    2.2G
`-- 10:   693M

Of these, always the last two are the ones actively supported. As of Oct 10th 2004, this means
only 9 and 10 change, sometimes daily.


ISO images
----------
Conectiva Linux ISO images and signatures

iso/ 26Gb as of Oct 10th, 2004.

As much as 8 ISO images could be added to this directory with every new version of the distro.


Snapshot
--------
Conectiva Linux snapshot version. Changes daily.

snapshot/ 11Gb. 

The following subtrees might be of interest:

snapshot/ppc/    2.1Gb. Conectiva Linux snapshot for ppc arch (only binary RPMS)
snapshot/sparc/  1.1Gb. Conectiva Linux snapshot for sparc arch (only binary RPMS)

These three subtrees do not change much anymore, but the main snapshot tree does.
If you are going to mirror the snapshot tree, please do not exclude the sources, since
this is a development tree.


Stable distro branches
----------------------
These are directories with the version of the distro as their names. We use ISO loop mounted
images here, that is, the contents of these directories (minus "i386" and "base", see further
below) are the exact same contents of the respective ISO images. Mirrors shouldn't download
the contents of these directories again if they already have the ISO images.

These branches are not expected to change over time. Even if they do change, it would
be only in the control files (those symlinks and the files under "base"), since the rest
is loop mounted. Size shouldn't change much either. You should expect a ~30Mb download 
(less for older versions of the distro, but NOT CL8.0) if you already have the ISO images loop mounted.

Example for the "9" tree (the "stable", or "current" one at this time):

9
|-- SRPMS.001 -> cd5/SRPMS.001  <--- symlinks that need to be there, not part of ISO images
|-- SRPMS.002 -> cd6/SRPMS.002
|-- SRPMS.003 -> cd7/SRPMS.003
|-- SRPMS.004 -> cd8/SRPMS.004
|-- cd1
|-- cd2
|-- cd3
|-- cd4   <----- each "cd" dir is its respective ISO image loop mounted
|-- cd5      (Its contents shouldn't be downloaded if you already have the ISO images)
|-- cd6
|-- cd7
|-- cd8
`-- i386 <--------------- not part of ISO image (also called "conectiva" in older versions)
    |-- RPMS.001 -> ../cd1/conectiva/RPMS.001  <--- more needed symlinks, not part of ISO images
    |-- RPMS.002 -> ../cd2/conectiva/RPMS.002
    |-- RPMS.003 -> ../cd3/conectiva/RPMS.003
    |-- RPMS.004 -> ../cd4/conectiva/RPMS.004
    `-- base    <-------------------------------- apt repository files, not part of ISO images
        (apt repository files here, less than 30Mb)

So, if you download everything EXCEPT the contents of the "cd" subdirs, and mount the ISO images there,
you should be fine. This means that this "9" repository should represent a ~30Mb download only, less for older
versions of the distro (*if* you already have the ISO images!).

Older versions of the distro (<6.0) do not contain the "i386" (or "conectiva") subdirectory nor the symlinks,
just the cd ISO loop mounted directories.

IMPORTANT
CL8 is an exception to this rule, the i386 and SRPMS directories do contain a lot of files and not just
apt repositories and symlinks.

CL8 minus the ISO images is at 3.9Gb in size.