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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: GPL and Source code providing
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 16:40:26
Message-Id: 44AA8A69.7000103@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: GPL and Source code providing by Patrick McLean
1 Patrick McLean schrieb:
2 > I have absolutely zero experience with catalyst, but couldn't it be made
3 > to create a source CD ISO when it is generating the binary one? Just
4 > make a cd with all the distfiles used in the ISO, and keep the source
5 > ISO with the binary one in /historical.
6
7 Creating an ISO isn't a problem (assuming you have the sources, which
8 for historical releases might be a problem), but it would require
9 another several hundred megabytes per release on the mirrors which isn't
10 exactly a trivial amount.
11
12 Marius
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