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

[Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>]

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On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 09:00:29AM -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.

Stupid question, but the master mirroring setup actually holds onto 
files after it moves them off of the gentoo mirror tier- purgatory 
dir.

Why not just make that dir accessible via web/torrent/whatever on 
a seperate server?  Abusing osprey for it is a bit much (mainly infra 
has asked to wipe files from the purgatory dir in the past, which is a 
no go), so seperate probably is wise.

Further filtering of the files to those under gpl (pulled from pkg 
metadata) is doable, just would need to mangle mirror-dist a bit to 
maintain long term info about who owned what (instead of it's current 
"out of sight, out of the db" approach).

Just a thought- machinery is mostly there, might as well abuse it.
~harring

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