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On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 02:21 -0500, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> The bonus is that we then need to have a fetcher that runs over the main |
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> tree and all supported release trees, and this of course increases |
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> mirror size as we now have distfiles in the tree from a year ago to |
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> support a year old release. I am unsure how much space this would take |
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> up; but this is an obstacle that must be overcome (somehow), preferably |
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> by giving infra an estimate on the space reqs. |
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Well, we have to provide distfiles for everything we've ever released a |
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binary of, forever, to comply with the GPL. |
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As of this release, I kept a copy of all of the distfiles for the entire |
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release, and can make a DVD of it, on request. This fulfills our |
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requirements with the GPL. |
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I would bet that for most of the tree, the size increase would be |
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negligible, since quite a bit of the tree doesn't change every six |
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months. Of course, the stuff that does change tends to be the larger |
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things, like desktop environments and such. I wouldn't have a clue how |
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to give you an idea of the space requirements until the next release |
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comes about and I also have distfiles for that release. That will give |
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you an idea, based only on what we release, though. |
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