Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/

[Lance Albertson <ramereth@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 17:08 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 14:30 -0700, Corey Shields wrote:
> > I think that nomirror should be used as seldom as possible.  Licensing issues 
> > are legit.  We've had one case where mirror admins complained about a file 
> > that was too big (a 2 gig neverwinter nights file), but otherwise I have 
> > talked with them before about releasing "nomirror" wherever we can, and they 
> > didn't mind.
> 
> We actually use nomirror pretty extensively on the games team.  We have
> quite a few mods/games that come in at over 500MB.  There's even a
> couple at over 1GB.  I can tell you that if we loosened the nomirror on
> those, we would need at least another 20GB of mirror space just for the
> added games-* distfiles.
> 
> So how about we leave it a bit more open for interpretation?

Yeah, thanks for not putting those on our mirrors :) See my previous
email about a possible way to determine what goes on the mirrors. Maybe
we have a limit at which those devs should ask our mirror admins if the
file can be added or not (say, anything over 200M or 300M). Just an
idea. Mainly, use common sense!

Cheers,

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Lance Albertson <ramereth@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager

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