Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding large files to the mirrors?

[Vicente Olivert Riera]

Can't the users download and install those tables manually from the
official ophcrack website/server? If so, maybe adding the instructions
in the pkg_postinst() phase of app-crypt/ophcrack ebuild would be
enough. In that case, it wouldn't make sense having
app-crypt/ophcrack-tables in the portage tree and should be treecleaned.

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Vicente Olivert Riera
Gentoo Linux Developer
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On 10/16/2013 01:20 AM, Mike Auty wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm updating the app-crypt/ophcrack-tables package to include the new
> tables available from their site.  These are basically just additional
> data packages that can be useful with the app-crypt/ophcrack package,
> but they're very large.  Including all of them will come just short of
> 30Gb.  I don't know whether it's ok to add that to our mirrors, or add
> RESTRICT="mirror"?
>
> Also, these take up a lot of space in distfiles.  Does anyone know of
> a clever way to allow them to be installed without also stashing a
> copy in distfiles (symlinking to the distfiles directory is a no go,
> because each "set" needs its own files to have the same name as the
> other sets)?
>
> I guess it's a bit of an infra question, but thought I'd ask here in
> case anyone else has found themselves in a similar situation.  For
> more specifics about what the package is like/for see the test ebuild
> at [1]...
>
> Mike  5:)
>
> [1]
> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=dev/ikelos.git;a=blob;f=app-crypt/ophcrack-tables/ophcrack-tables-1.1.ebuild
>