Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: John Davis <zhen@g.o>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-infrastructure@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Historical release archives
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 01:35:46
Message-Id: 1083116148.27589.57.camel@woot.uberdavis.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-releng] Historical release archives by Kurt Lieber
1 On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 21:22, Kurt Lieber wrote:
2 > On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 08:05:08PM -0500 or thereabouts, Lance Albertson wrote:
3 > > I just got to thinking and realized we need to decide how far back we
4 > > want to keep releases on mirrors. Since we're planning on doing 4
5 > > releases per year, its going to get big really fast. I did some checking
6 > > around, and our current historical directory is 12GB in size... below
7 > > shows how big each arch has. This includes 1.4 releases plus some 1.2
8 > > releases.
9 >
10 > I was planning on keeping the current release + 2 older releases available
11 > online. The others would be deleted and/or archived somewhere. (I'll be
12 > deleting them. If releng wants to take the responsibility of archiving
13 > them, that's fine, too)
14 >
15 > We don't have unlimited space on our master mirror, so we do need to be
16 > cognizant of space limitations even there. That's what caused the
17 > historical/ snafu in the first place.
18 >
19 > --kurt
20
21 Current +2 is just fine, I can archive the rest on media at my house.
22 Let's go this route, not forgetting to put a README on the mirrors where
23 all of the old stuff is ;)
24
25 Cheers,
26 //zhen
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Re: [gentoo-releng] Historical release archives Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o>