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From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding large files to the mirrors?
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 23:58:00
Message-Id: 525DD6C6.6040409@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Adding large files to the mirrors? by Mike Auty
1 On 10/16/2013 07:20 AM, Mike Auty wrote:
2 > Hi there,
3 >
4 > I'm updating the app-crypt/ophcrack-tables package to include the new
5 > tables available from their site. These are basically just additional
6 > data packages that can be useful with the app-crypt/ophcrack package,
7 > but they're very large. Including all of them will come just short of
8 > 30Gb. I don't know whether it's ok to add that to our mirrors, or add
9 > RESTRICT="mirror"?
10 Add a ophcrack-tables-big package that is mirror-restricted
11 (that way the rest of ophcrack-tables is unaffected)
12
13 Pull it in with a useflag ("big-tables" ?)
14
15 The "double size" problem with a copy in distfiles and livefs might be
16 unavoidable - I have no good idea how to fix that