* Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: re-organizing our source mirrors into two categories: full and partial
@ 2003-07-26 20:38 99% ` paul
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From: paul @ 2003-07-26 20:38 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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
>
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