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From: Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ibiblio dumps Gentoo distfiles to "save space"
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:29:25
Message-Id: 342e1090902122229v62ada152g927f9ae6125f3de9@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ibiblio dumps Gentoo distfiles to "save space" by Jerry McBride
1 On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 20:23, Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@×××××××.net> wrote:
2 >
3 > Imagine my surprise when the nightly rsync of Gentoo distfiles with ibibilo
4 > resulted in my distfile repository getting totally deleted. After a few
5 > emails wit the admins at ibibilo I finally got the answer that I was looking
6 > for... the truth...
7 >
8 >>> Jerry,
9 >>>
10 >>> We are no longer rsyncing the distfiles due to space constraints on our
11 >>> distributions volume. Gentoo's own instructions for setting up a mirror
12 >>> recommend excluding the distfiles directory:
13 >>>
14 >>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml
15 >>>
16 >>> If you need these files, you could try the other mirrors listed on this
17 >>> page:
18 >>>
19 >>> http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors2.xml
20 >>>
21 >>> Best,
22 >>>
23 >>> Matt
24 >>>
25 >
26 > I promptly emailed back an offer of two new 1,000 gig drives if they would put
27 > the gentoo distfiles back up and... no answer....
28 >
29 > Guess they really don't care.
30 >
31
32 Isn't default portage behavior NOT to sync distfiles? Some distfiles
33 are hosted on mirrors not related to gentoo, others have no mirrors at
34 all, leaving a single server to download from, so, I can't think of a
35 reason to sync this specific folder, other than being a mirror
36 yourself (is that the case?).
37
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39 Daniel da Veiga