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[Benjamin Judas]

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Subject: Fwd: [gentoo-releng] Amount used in experimental/
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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:26:12 +0200
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> From: Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@g.o>
> Date: Mon 18 Oct 2004 13:00:09 CEST
> To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
> Cc: Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@g.o>
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Amount used in experimental/
>
> #gentoo-mirrors:
>
> 22:13 < pvdabeel> Hi, apparently most 2004.2/ppc mirrors are down.
> Since they are mentioned in the gentoo handbook, I'm getting lots of
> emails about users not finding 2004.2
> 22:14 < pvdabeel> would it be possible to mirror the 2004.2 dir in my
> dev.g.o homedir?
> 22:14 < pvdabeel> experimental would be fine, releases would be even
> cooler
> 22:16 < pvdabeel> ah and btw. the skynet.be mirror is terribly
> outdated
> 22:18 <@jforman> just ppc mirrors are down? or admins arent mirroring
> ppc ?
> 22:19 <@jforman> pvdabeel: make a mirror bug about the skynet one
> being out dated and i can direct that to the admin there
> 22:19 <@jforman> pvdabeel: i would prefer things be stuck in
> experimental if its testing ppc stuff.
> 22:19 < pvdabeel> jforman: ppcmirrors down
> 22:19 < pvdabeel> jforman: would it be possible to put the livecd,
> snapshot and stages in releases and grp in experimental?
> 22:19 < pvdabeel> I'd be willing to do the same for 2004.3 if that
> could help save some space
> 22:20 <@jforman> pvdabeel: you have access to throw it in
> /space/experimental-local on toucan
> 22:20 <@jforman> in the appropriate dir of course
> 22:20 < pvdabeel> jforman: k could you update the message in the
> releases directory to mention the experimental directory?
> 22:21 <@jforman> yeah
> 22:21 <@jforman> remind me in a bit. trying to study for midterms
> 22:21 < pvdabeel> define a bit ;-)
> 22:23 <@jforman> 5-6 hours for me
>
>
>
> On 18 Oct 2004, at 11:07, Luke-Jr wrote:
>
>
> > On Oct 17 20:11:38 in #gentoo-ppc:
> >
> > > <Pylon> pvdabeel: How many space do we need for 2004.3?
> > > <pvdabeel> Pylon: at least 5G
> > > <Pylon> pvdabeel: For stages, ISOs and GRP, right?
> > > <pvdabeel> yep
> > > <pvdabeel> asking infra to put it in experimental
> > > <pvdabeel> or releases - who knows ;-)
> > > <pvdabeel> Pylon: I've asked in #gentoo-mirrors
> > > <pvdabeel> Pylon: could you ask klieber? Who knows politely
> > > asking might
> > >
> > help
> >
> > > <pvdabeel> Pylon: jforman is working on it
> > > <pvdabeel> Pylon: jforman suggests experimental?
> > > <Pylon> pvdabeel: What should we do into experimental?
> > > <pvdabeel> Pylon: we put 2004.2 there
> > > <Luke-Jr_> Pylon: so 2004.1 LiveCD's should be fine
> > > <Pylon> pvdabeel: So, we should put the ISOs in experimental?
> > > <pvdabeel> and update the message in the release directory to
> > > mention
> > >
> > experimental
> >
> > > <Pylon> pvdabeel: Ah 2004.2 for the time until 2004.3 is out?
> > > <pvdabeel> yep
> > > --- big snip ---
> > > <spyderous> hm, which stage do i use?
> > > <spyderous> g4, i assume
> > > <Pylon> spyderous: g4 -- or a testing 2004.3-stage.
> > > <Pylon> spyderous: Like
> > >
> > http://dev.gentoo.org/~pvdabeel/2004.3/stage1-ppc-20040926.tar.bz2
> >
> > > <spyderous> why don't you guys stick those in experimental
> > > <Pylon> spyderous: Oh, we just got the information from infra
> > > today, that we
> > >
> > are "allowed" to use experimental.
> >
> > > <spyderous> of course you're allowed to use it.
> > > <Pylon> spyderous: Currently it's uploading to experimental.
> > > <Pylon> spyderous: If you ask klieber, then not...  Probably his
> > > mind
> > >
> > changed lately.
> >
> > > <Pylon> Nevertheless.  It's solved now.
> > > <spyderous> probably because infra was getting a thousand emails
> > > asking wtf
> > >
> > happened to all the ppc releases
> >
> > > <Pylon> Probably.  And our self-organised two mirrors are also
> > > down now.
> > > <Pylon> And the sooner we are about to release 2004.3 the more is
> > > asked for
> > >
> > 2004.2 in this channel.  It's a kind of being annoyed.
> > --
> > Luke-Jr
> > Developer, Utopios
> > http://utopios.org/
> >
>
>



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