From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21849 invoked by uid 1002); 27 Jul 2003 17:00:28 -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 22135 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2003 17:00:28 -0000 Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 12:57:55 -0400 From: Kurt Lieber To: gentoo-mirrors@gentoo.org, gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030727165752.GL9959@mail.lieber.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-mirrors@gentoo.org, gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bpj97y6y1cZVuO8Q" Content-Disposition: inline X-GPG-Key: http://www.lieber.org/kurtl.pub.gpg User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: [gentoo-dev] New policy for source mirrors X-Archives-Salt: cc078d27-835f-4dbc-b940-1eaa8038ff1b X-Archives-Hash: b5d88910020fa45e80315565891482d5 --bpj97y6y1cZVuO8Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Folks --=20 We are officially implementing a new policy for source mirrors. Whereas before we only had one type of source mirror which was required to mirror everything Gentoo Linux offered, we are now splitting that into two categories: * Full Source Mirrors -- these mirrors will continue to be required to mirror the full Gentoo Linux source tree. * Partial Source Mirrors -- these mirrors will only mirror /distfiles and /snapshots. They will not mirror /releases, /experimental and any other directories we add in the future. The main reason for this change is to recognize that many of our mirrors, while wanting to help support Gentoo Linux, simply do not have the resources available to mirror what is an ever-increasing amount of data. If you are a source mirror and wish to be a full source mirror, you do not need to do anything. Nothing will change for you. If you are a source mirror and wish to change to a partial source mirror, you need to do two things: * Fill out a bug on bugs.gentoo.org, assigned to the "rsync" category. (yes, we need to change that category name) Please state in the bug the name of your mirror and the fact you want to become a partial source mirror. * Once we have confirmed the change by posting a response to the bug you report, you can update your rsync scripts to exclude the /releases and /experimental directories. =20 If you have any questions, please let me know. Also, while this new policy will offer some relief to our mirrors who are short on disk space, we will continue to find other ways to reduce the mirror space required by Gentoo Linux as much as possible. We appreciate the support, resources and time that our mirrors offer and want to be as respectful of that as possible. Thanks. --kurt --bpj97y6y1cZVuO8Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/JASQJPpRNiftIEYRAlywAJwLhOhpen6ituLY60gYNukEct1vQQCfU4P4 8XeHDaSSZgdjHFCbGgm+OR0= =wipA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bpj97y6y1cZVuO8Q--