From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4352 invoked by uid 1002); 25 Jul 2003 20:06:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 4349 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2003 20:06:37 -0000 From: Stuart Herbert Reply-To: stuart@gentoo.org To: Rainer Groesslinger , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 21:04:41 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030722125848.GW23209@mail.lieber.org> <20030722130331.GX23209@mail.lieber.org> <200307221524.14106.scandium@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200307221524.14106.scandium@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_e1YI/KUJsT5U3WU"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200307252104.46511.stuart@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reducing the size of distfiles for our mirrors X-Archives-Salt: b05bd9dd-ee9f-4b5e-a86d-bf07e35d34c7 X-Archives-Hash: 94664d1a5ba84365841c6c6ac77673e0 --Boundary-02=_e1YI/KUJsT5U3WU Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 22 July 2003 2:24 pm, Rainer Groesslinger wrote: > Perhaps you already thought about this but IMHO part of that policy should > be that files which are stored on a network with a good mirroring > infrastructure (sourceforge, kernel.org etc.) are never placed on our > distfiles because it is very unlikely all 10 mirrors (or how many > sourceforge ever has) are down and since the gentoo distfile mirrors are > used before the > mirror://sourceforge in the ebuild it causes more traffic to the mirrors > (plus the space it takes) because nobody really gets it from sourceforge.= =2E. > > I think we could save a lot of bandwidth _and_ space if such files aren't > placed on the gentoo mirrors if not absolutly neccessary, I don't see a > real reason why we need to put hundreds of files on the gentoo mirrors > which are already stored on a very good mirroring system. I've just thought of a problem with this. Not necessarily about Sourceforg= e=20 (although it needs to be thought about) but one in general. If the source code's in our distfiles mirror system, we're immune from any= =20 changes / withdrawals made elsewhere. Our ebuilds will continue to work=20 until the package itself breaks, or we choose to replace it. But if we're not mirroring the source code, then the ebuild breaks as soon = as=20 the source code tarball/rpm/whatever is withdrawn from the author's master= =20 site. It shouldn't be a big problem, but it's worth thinking about. (Just to clarify - I believe we shouldn't be mirroring commercial packages= =20 without very good reason ;-) Best regards, Stu =2D-=20 Stuart Herbert stuart@gentoo.o= rg Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.or= g/ Upcoming packages list http://dev.gentoo.org/~stuart/package= s/ GnuGP key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint =3D 31FB 50D4 1F88 E227 F319 C549 0C2F 80BA F9AF C57C =2D- --Boundary-02=_e1YI/KUJsT5U3WU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/IY1eDC+AuvmvxXwRAkGtAJ42nF74Ii/W4xp5g7NLpgqpBQIk4wCglKsQ kZHnBc5QwjIYKKlyqqBqg+Y= =vXVW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_e1YI/KUJsT5U3WU--