Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: GPL and Source code providing

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 09:00 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 18:34 +0300, Marius Mauch wrote:
> > Patrick McLean schrieb:
> > > I have absolutely zero experience with catalyst, but couldn't it be made
> > > to create a source CD ISO when it is generating the binary one? Just
> > > make a cd with all the distfiles used in the ISO, and keep the source
> > > ISO with the binary one in /historical.
> > 
> > Creating an ISO isn't a problem (assuming you have the sources, which 
> > for historical releases might be a problem), but it would require 
> > another several hundred megabytes per release on the mirrors which isn't 
> > exactly a trivial amount.
> 
> No, it would almost double the space used by the release.  Current
> releases use about 12-14G of space.  Doubling that would mean reducing
> the amount of stuff we're allowed to distribute dramatically,
> essentially crippling our release capabilities.

Actually, I've gone back and estimated this based on what information I
have from the release, and I came up with something more like 8G for
2006.0, though we already have some things that are "lost" from that
release.

Anyway, I really am starting to like the DVD available via the store
idea more and more, as it only means Release Engineering needs to do a
little extra work, and it requires no extra work for our mirrors or
Infrastructure team.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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