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bdharring wrote: |
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> On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 09:11 AM, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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>> Folks -- |
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>> I'd like to propose the following reorg for our mirrors. Right now, all |
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>> mirrors are required to carry all directories. I'd like to break that |
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>> into |
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>> two categories: full mirrors and distfile mirrors. |
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>> Full mirrors would still be required to carry all directories. Full |
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>> means |
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>> full, after all. :) |
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>> distfile mirrors would be required to carry two directories: |
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>> /distfiles and |
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>> /snapshots. /snapshots contains snapshots of the portage tree and is |
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>> used |
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>> by emerge-webrsync for folks that are behind restrictive firewalls. |
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>> Typically, the /snapshot directory is under 250MB. |
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>> This gives mirrors who are short on disk space an option to still support |
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>> Gentoo without having to set aside nearly 50GB of space for us. For |
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>> mirrors who do have enough disk space, they can continue to mirror the |
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>> full |
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>> tree. |
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>> We will of course continue to work at reducing the overall amount of data |
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>> that we have. However, over time, our space requirements will |
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>> undoubtedly |
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>> continue to increase. This proposal is meant as a longer term |
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>> solution to |
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>> give mirror admins an option on how best they can support Gentoo in their |
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>> environment. |
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> Going a bit longer term, I'd wonder about adding a mirror classification |
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> that handles just diff's (or whatever format is used). |
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he he, opened my MUA to ask about that this morning ;) I'd love to see |
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portage handle updates as patches to distfiles. Is this feature planned |
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in the near future? |
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paul |
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> While distfile diff's aren't currently included/existing, I can't help |
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> but believe that this feature will be integrated into portage at some |
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> point, mainly due to the fact people request it and more importantly, |
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> the fact that people are working on this problem. |
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> Also, are you advocating the distfile mirrors carry a *complete* |
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> distfile mirror, or a partial? I'm curious what the space savings would |
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> be... |
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> ~bdh |
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