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On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 20:23, Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Imagine my surprise when the nightly rsync of Gentoo distfiles with ibibilo |
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> resulted in my distfile repository getting totally deleted. After a few |
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> emails wit the admins at ibibilo I finally got the answer that I was looking |
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> for... the truth... |
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>>> Jerry, |
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>>> We are no longer rsyncing the distfiles due to space constraints on our |
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>>> distributions volume. Gentoo's own instructions for setting up a mirror |
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>>> recommend excluding the distfiles directory: |
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>>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml |
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>>> If you need these files, you could try the other mirrors listed on this |
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>>> page: |
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>>> http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors2.xml |
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>>> Best, |
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>>> Matt |
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> I promptly emailed back an offer of two new 1,000 gig drives if they would put |
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> the gentoo distfiles back up and... no answer.... |
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> Guess they really don't care. |
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Isn't default portage behavior NOT to sync distfiles? Some distfiles |
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are hosted on mirrors not related to gentoo, others have no mirrors at |
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all, leaving a single server to download from, so, I can't think of a |
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reason to sync this specific folder, other than being a mirror |
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yourself (is that the case?). |
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Daniel da Veiga |