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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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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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