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Brian Harring wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 09:00:29AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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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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> Stupid question, but the master mirroring setup actually holds onto |
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> files after it moves them off of the gentoo mirror tier- purgatory |
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> dir. |
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> |
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> Why not just make that dir accessible via web/torrent/whatever on |
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> a seperate server? Abusing osprey for it is a bit much (mainly infra |
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> has asked to wipe files from the purgatory dir in the past, which is a |
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> no go), so seperate probably is wise. |
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No way in hell are we running such a service on the master mirror. I |
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don't see why we need to have a public system setup as long as we can |
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provide the source when asked. As far as a I know, the GPL doesn't |
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dicate that we have to provide the sources in an internet media form. |
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They just need to be available when requested. Perhaps we can have a |
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document that explains a process for getting said sources. I don't see |
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the point of creating a torrent/whatever system just for the rare |
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instances that people want the older source. Way too much overhead for |
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something I don't see being used much. |
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If it gets to be used more, then we can possibly think about making a |
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system, but I don't think it warrants it right off. We haven't gotten a |
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request for old sources (from my memory) ever. |
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> Further filtering of the files to those under gpl (pulled from pkg |
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> metadata) is doable, just would need to mangle mirror-dist a bit to |
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> maintain long term info about who owned what (instead of it's current |
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> "out of sight, out of the db" approach). |
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> Just a thought- machinery is mostly there, might as well abuse it. |
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A lot of the stuff that's currently in the purgatory area also includes |
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sources for stuff we didn't make (upstream sources, etc). If you can |
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separate those files from Gentoo specific files, then it would be much |
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easier to manag (from an admin point of view). Its not practical to |
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assume we have an infinite amount of space. |
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