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Folks -- |
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We are officially implementing a new policy for source mirrors. Whereas |
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before we only had one type of source mirror which was required to mirror |
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everything Gentoo Linux offered, we are now splitting that into two |
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categories: |
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* Full Source Mirrors -- these mirrors will continue to be required to |
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mirror the full Gentoo Linux source tree. |
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* Partial Source Mirrors -- these mirrors will only mirror /distfiles and |
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/snapshots. They will not mirror /releases, /experimental and any other |
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directories we add in the future. |
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The main reason for this change is to recognize that many of our mirrors, |
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while wanting to help support Gentoo Linux, simply do not have the |
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resources available to mirror what is an ever-increasing amount of data. |
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If you are a source mirror and wish to be a full source mirror, you do not |
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need to do anything. Nothing will change for you. |
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If you are a source mirror and wish to change to a partial source mirror, |
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you need to do two things: |
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* Fill out a bug on bugs.gentoo.org, assigned to the "rsync" category. |
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(yes, we need to change that category name) Please state in the bug |
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the name of your mirror and the fact you want to become a partial source |
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mirror. |
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* Once we have confirmed the change by posting a response to the bug you |
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report, you can update your rsync scripts to exclude the /releases and |
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/experimental directories. |
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If you have any questions, please let me know. Also, while this new policy |
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will offer some relief to our mirrors who are short on disk space, we will |
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continue to find other ways to reduce the mirror space required by Gentoo |
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Linux as much as possible. We appreciate the support, resources and time |
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that our mirrors offer and want to be as respectful of that as possible. |
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Thanks. |
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--kurt |