From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j27ItlHe014315 for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 18:55:47 GMT Received: from [12.10.10.226] (helo=[127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.42) id 1D8NOM-00026P-5j for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 18:55:46 +0000 Message-ID: <422CA2FF.80803@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 12:52:47 -0600 From: Lance Albertson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Large files still in files/ References: <20050206.052901.4667@leftmind.net> <20050306131024.Q29561@leftmind.net> <20050306202517.GA30996@toucan.gentoo.org> <1110214624.8842.78.camel@nosferatu.lan> <1110221569.9520.217.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> In-Reply-To: <1110221569.9520.217.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig70DC221E738934DD91598ACD" X-Archives-Salt: f0e3c383-e3f7-41da-b89b-ed6c53286050 X-Archives-Hash: b5c2a4a2eecd91d897d89818f6ff050d This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig70DC221E738934DD91598ACD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 18:57 +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > >>>I kind of like this idea, however, I think it's idealistic. Patches need >>>to be modified very frequently. Especially when we combine multiple >>>patches and make them all work with USE flags. >>> >>>A great deal of our patches really are written specifically work with our >>>ebuilds. >>> >>>What is the real percentage of space usage from compressed or uncompressed >>>patches? How big of a problem is it? >>> >> >>Also the problem is that especially if you have a rapid changing >>package, where the patches changes a lot, putting it in distfiles is a >>pita, as you have to scp it, then wait an hour to 3 depending on how >>lucky you are, and then only commit. And especially if you forgetful >>like me, you tend to forget to either come back and commit the new >>version/revision, or to copy the new tarball to distfiles ... > > > This was why we were asking for a "packages.gentoo.org" that could > either be a single or multiple machines. It could even replace > the /space/distfiles-local, as everything from it could be pushed out to > be synched to distfiles. This would make them immediately available, > and would alleviate the problem. Once the main distfiles mirrors got > the files, they could be deleted from packages.gentoo.org You mean patches.gentoo.org. Yes, ideally this is something we need to setup. I recall having this topic a few months back, but I forgot where it left off. Right now dev.g.o is a single point of failure. If it dies, everything you host there dies. -- Lance Albertson Gentoo Infrastructure | Operational Manager --- Public GPG key: Key fingerprint: 0423 92F3 544A 1282 5AB1 4D07 416F A15D 27F4 B742 ramereth/irc.freenode.net --------------enig70DC221E738934DD91598ACD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCLKL/QW+hXSf0t0IRAh2uAJ9FNSNEgOivhUNKWiDKVaD4ZBPxEgCfb+Jc Zqi4AAJK5W6qxMI6u5/BHgc= =GQ0K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig70DC221E738934DD91598ACD-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list