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From: Tobias Klausmann <klausman@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86-portage on the rsync mirrors
Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 18:44:23
Message-Id: 20060513183728.GA504@eric.schwarzvogel.de
1 Hi!
2
3 I'm the admin of rsync5.de.gentoo.org.
4
5 For quite a while now (over a year, maybe even two or more), the
6 gentoo-x86-portage rsync module has been deemed deprecated. Yet
7 still the manual for setting up an rsync server says that it
8 should be configured.
9
10 I see about 1700 connections on my server per day. In the last
11 few months I have seen these counts for syncs against
12 gentoo-x86-portage:
13
14 22 2006/01
15 17 2006/02
16 4 2006/03
17 11 2006/04
18 2 2006/05
19
20 This tells me two things: First, there are still people out there
21 who use it. They should be more explicitly discouraged from doing
22 so.
23
24 Second, while there are some people who use the module, there are
25 so few that after all this time we should finally be able to get
26 rid of the module. It hasn't served any useful purpose for months
27 if not years.
28
29 The only reason it has lingered so long is probably because it
30 uses nearly no extra resources.
31
32 What do you think?
33
34 Regards,
35 Tobias
36
37 --
38 You don't need eyes to see, you need vision.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86-portage on the rsync mirrors Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>