[Qa-debsources] sources.debian.org migration

Matthieu Caneill matthieucan at debian.org
Wed Apr 12 14:40:36 UTC 2017


Digging this discussion:

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 08:51:43PM +0100, Matthieu Caneill wrote:
> > As part of the Postgres discussion with DSA, it occurred to me that we
> > need to decide what to do for the migration in of the current data.
> > There are (at least) 2 ways to go about it:
> > 
> > 1) dump/restore DB + copy over all pre-extracted source packages from
> >    the current hosting location
> > 
> > 2) clean slate: start fresh, and reinject all suites + archive.d.o
> >    directly on the new host
> > 
> > Thoughts and/or preferences?
> > 
> > (1) looks more appealing here.
> 
> While I think (1) should be notably faster, (2) would allow us to
> verify it actually works fine to start from scratch (it should, but
> well…). I don't have any preference since both have their advantages.

So what do we do here?

Cheers,
--
Matthieu



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