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From: Vladimir Brik <no.hope@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-mirrors@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mirrors] /experimental size planning
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:31:48
Message-Id: 479779FE.6060509@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-mirrors] /experimental size planning by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 Disk is cheap.
2
3 Robin H. Johnson wrote:
4 > Hi folks,
5 >
6 > This is sounding the waters for some releng plans.
7 >
8 > First of all, /experimental/beta/. This would be a beta release of every
9 > arch, some time before the final release was made. Presently estimated
10 > about the same size as a release (2006.1 was 11.8Gb, 2007.0 was 10.3Gb,
11 > 2008.0 is estimated around the same 10Gb mark).
12 > You'd be welcome to exclude it if you didn't want it on your mirror.
13 > Yay/Nay?
14 >
15 > Second is a bit of a pie-in-the-sky thing, but it's going to be a DVD
16 > image and a bunch of related tarballs. Also under /experimental
17 > somewhere, for another ~4.5Gb.
18 >
19 > On sizes for /releases, /releases is going to be shrinking another 3Gb
20 > or so, as the last arches lose their 2006.0 stuff when 2008.0 is close
21 > at hand.
22 >
23 >
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