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From: "Rick \\\"Zero_Chaos\\\" Farina" <zerochaos@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding large files to the mirrors?
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 01:21:54
Message-Id: 525DEAED.3010101@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding large files to the mirrors? by Vicente Olivert Riera
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4 On 10/15/2013 07:29 PM, Vicente Olivert Riera wrote:
5 > Can't the users download and install those tables manually from the
6 > official ophcrack website/server? If so, maybe adding the instructions
7 > in the pkg_postinst() phase of app-crypt/ophcrack ebuild would be
8 > enough. In that case, it wouldn't make sense having
9 > app-crypt/ophcrack-tables in the portage tree and should be treecleaned.
10
11 I think this may be the sanest option *for the large tables*. The small
12 tables are great, and you can einfo a message about the large ones.
13
14 - -Zero
15 >
16 > **************************
17 > Vicente Olivert Riera
18 > Gentoo Linux Developer
19 > ID GnuPG: 5AE9E7B2E9BBCBA8
20 > **************************
21 >
22 > On 10/16/2013 01:20 AM, Mike Auty wrote:
23 >> Hi there,
24 >>
25 >> I'm updating the app-crypt/ophcrack-tables package to include the new
26 >> tables available from their site. These are basically just additional
27 >> data packages that can be useful with the app-crypt/ophcrack package,
28 >> but they're very large. Including all of them will come just short of
29 >> 30Gb. I don't know whether it's ok to add that to our mirrors, or add
30 >> RESTRICT="mirror"?
31 >>
32 >> Also, these take up a lot of space in distfiles. Does anyone know of
33 >> a clever way to allow them to be installed without also stashing a
34 >> copy in distfiles (symlinking to the distfiles directory is a no go,
35 >> because each "set" needs its own files to have the same name as the
36 >> other sets)?
37 >>
38 >> I guess it's a bit of an infra question, but thought I'd ask here in
39 >> case anyone else has found themselves in a similar situation. For
40 >> more specifics about what the package is like/for see the test ebuild
41 >> at [1]...
42 >>
43 >> Mike 5:)
44 >>
45 >> [1]
46 >> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=dev/ikelos.git;a=blob;f=app-crypt/ophcrack-tables/ophcrack-tables-1.1.ebuild
47 >>
48 >
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