From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13224 invoked by uid 1002); 29 Jul 2003 16:46:30 -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 31414 invoked from network); 29 Jul 2003 16:46:30 -0000 Message-ID: <20030729164521.22199.qmail@linuxmail.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404) From: "John Whitney" To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:45:21 -0600 X-Originating-Ip: 67.67.216.23 X-Originating-Server: ws5-2.us4.outblaze.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP for Deltup package update system X-Archives-Salt: c28dd8b2-ca7d-45c6-b305-d8f6130bd09b X-Archives-Hash: 203e865ad2d3f270bbea3d3c123ae219 The space requirements are dynamic - they can be scaled to any level desired. We don't need patches for every package. This is accomplished by knowing which patches are available before trying to download them. You can provide a significant number of patches with just 100MB of space. Take a look at my demo repository: ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/deltup/patchfiles. All these patches take under 50MB and are still not fully optimized (newer patches will be about 33% more efficient). It'd be great to start out with patches for kernel, kde, gnome, gcc, mozilla, and some other big and necessary packages. Remember, there are a lot of dial-up users out there (some with only one phone line! :O :) ) A quota based system would be fine... ---JJW > Making those files available on our mirroring system is not as easy as you > might think. It is not a big-bang tranformation, meaning we will need to > continue to support people using the old way. Therefore, deltup will > require additional space on our mirrors. Before we can commit to > supporting this on our already-bulging mirror system, someone needs to > identify *exactly* what sort of space requirements this system will > require. (ok, not exactly, but at least within a 10% margin of error) > --kurt -- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list