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On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 18:34:01 +0300 |
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Marius Mauch <genone@g.o> wrote: |
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> Patrick McLean schrieb: |
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> > I have absolutely zero experience with catalyst, but couldn't it be |
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> > made to create a source CD ISO when it is generating the binary |
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> > one? Just make a cd with all the distfiles used in the ISO, and |
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> > keep the source 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 |
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> isn't exactly a trivial amount. |
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That's not good enough. We shouldn't do stuff that doesn't comply with |
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the relevant license, I'm sure most would agree. |
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Incidentally, the sources don't have to be on all the mirrors, |
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assuming that's a problem at all. We could supply just one source server |
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and rate-limit it; after all over the long term very few people will |
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actually need to retrieve source for older releases, and when releases |
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are new the sources are available much more easily via emerge and the |
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mirrors. Might be worth while making that clear to people downloading |
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the CDs. |
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An additional approach could be for releng to maintain a list of willing |
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volunteers around the world who would retain source CDs/DVDs for local |
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distribution (could limit access to the above-mentioned source-cd server |
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to these volunteers). Or if we want to be clever, setup a source-request |
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email alias which releng can farm out to nearby volunteers as |
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appropriate using email acknowledgement to ensure requests are serviced. |
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Point being, there are numerous ways we can comply, and no excuse for |
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not complying from now on. |
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Kevin F. Quinn |
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