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On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 09:00:29AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 18:34 +0300, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> > Patrick McLean schrieb: |
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> > > I have absolutely zero experience with catalyst, but couldn't it be made |
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> > > to create a source CD ISO when it is generating the binary one? Just |
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> > > make a cd with all the distfiles used in the ISO, and keep the source |
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> > > ISO with the binary one in /historical. |
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> > Creating an ISO isn't a problem (assuming you have the sources, which |
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> > for historical releases might be a problem), but it would require |
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> > another several hundred megabytes per release on the mirrors which isn't |
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> > exactly a trivial amount. |
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> No, it would almost double the space used by the release. Current |
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> releases use about 12-14G of space. Doubling that would mean reducing |
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> the amount of stuff we're allowed to distribute dramatically, |
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> essentially crippling our release capabilities. |
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Stupid question, but the master mirroring setup actually holds onto |
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files after it moves them off of the gentoo mirror tier- purgatory |
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dir. |
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Why not just make that dir accessible via web/torrent/whatever on |
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a seperate server? Abusing osprey for it is a bit much (mainly infra |
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has asked to wipe files from the purgatory dir in the past, which is a |
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no go), so seperate probably is wise. |
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Further filtering of the files to those under gpl (pulled from pkg |
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metadata) is doable, just would need to mangle mirror-dist a bit to |
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maintain long term info about who owned what (instead of it's current |
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"out of sight, out of the db" approach). |
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Just a thought- machinery is mostly there, might as well abuse it. |
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~harring |
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