From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32002 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Jul 2003 11:32:34 -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 20701 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2003 11:32:33 -0000 Message-ID: <3F22E6C2.3080800@subsignal.org> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 13:38:26 -0700 From: paul User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: re-organizing our source mirrors into two categories: full and partial X-Archives-Salt: 60a869ac-ee4f-4a72-ac0b-04cbddb7d5e1 X-Archives-Hash: 0809d3d18a6919cd27c61f2d8b7eec98 bdharring wrote: > > On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 09:11 AM, Kurt Lieber wrote: > >> Folks -- >> >> I'd like to propose the following reorg for our mirrors. Right now, all >> mirrors are required to carry all directories. I'd like to break that >> into >> two categories: full mirrors and distfile mirrors. >> >> Full mirrors would still be required to carry all directories. Full >> means >> full, after all. :) >> >> distfile mirrors would be required to carry two directories: >> /distfiles and >> /snapshots. /snapshots contains snapshots of the portage tree and is >> used >> by emerge-webrsync for folks that are behind restrictive firewalls. >> Typically, the /snapshot directory is under 250MB. >> >> This gives mirrors who are short on disk space an option to still support >> Gentoo without having to set aside nearly 50GB of space for us. For >> mirrors who do have enough disk space, they can continue to mirror the >> full >> tree. >> >> We will of course continue to work at reducing the overall amount of data >> that we have. However, over time, our space requirements will >> undoubtedly >> continue to increase. This proposal is meant as a longer term >> solution to >> give mirror admins an option on how best they can support Gentoo in their >> environment. > > Going a bit longer term, I'd wonder about adding a mirror classification > that handles just diff's (or whatever format is used). he he, opened my MUA to ask about that this morning ;) I'd love to see portage handle updates as patches to distfiles. Is this feature planned in the near future? paul > While distfile diff's aren't currently included/existing, I can't help > but believe that this feature will be integrated into portage at some > point, mainly due to the fact people request it and more importantly, > the fact that people are working on this problem. > Also, are you advocating the distfile mirrors carry a *complete* > distfile mirror, or a partial? I'm curious what the space savings would > be... > ~bdh > > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list