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From: Greg Cornell <Greg.Cornell@××××××××××.edu>
To: "gentoo-mirrors@l.g.o" <gentoo-mirrors@l.g.o>
Subject: RE: [gentoo-mirrors] /experimental size planning
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:21:31
Message-Id: 1C41A84ADCED6E439EB3E7EDBCD3DF711143A49F55@post3.skynet.local
In Reply to: [gentoo-mirrors] /experimental size planning by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 Hi Robin,
2
3 We should have space for both new items.
4
5 Greg
6
7 > -----Original Message-----
8 > From: Robin H. Johnson [mailto:robbat2@g.o]
9 > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:34 AM
10 > To: gentoo-mirrors@l.g.o
11 > Subject: [gentoo-mirrors] /experimental size planning
12 >
13 > Hi folks,
14 >
15 > This is sounding the waters for some releng plans.
16 >
17 > First of all, /experimental/beta/. This would be a beta release of
18 > every arch, some time before the final release was made. Presently
19 > estimated about the same size as a release (2006.1 was 11.8Gb, 2007.0
20 > was 10.3Gb, 2008.0 is estimated around the same 10Gb mark).
21 > You'd be welcome to exclude it if you didn't want it on your mirror.
22 > Yay/Nay?
23 >
24 > Second is a bit of a pie-in-the-sky thing, but it's going to be a DVD
25 > image and a bunch of related tarballs. Also under /experimental
26 > somewhere, for another ~4.5Gb.
27 >
28 > On sizes for /releases, /releases is going to be shrinking another 3Gb
29 > or so, as the last arches lose their 2006.0 stuff when 2008.0 is close
30 > at hand.
31 >
32 > --
33 > Robin Hugh Johnson
34 > Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy
35 > E-Mail : robbat2@g.o
36 > GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
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