Fwd: [gentoo-releng] Amount used in experimental/]

[Benjamin Judas <beejay@gentoo.org>]

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Subject: Fwd: [gentoo-releng] Amount used in experimental/
From: Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@mac.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:26:12 +0200
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> From: Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@gentoo.org> 
> Date: Mon 18 Oct 2004 13:00:09 CEST 
> To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org 
> Cc: Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@gentoo.org> 
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Amount used in experimental/ 
>  
> #gentoo-mirrors: 
> 
> 22:13 < pvdabeel> Hi, apparently most 2004.2/ppc mirrors are down. 
> Since they are mentioned in the gentoo handbook, I'm getting lots of 
> emails about users not finding 2004.2 
> 22:14 < pvdabeel> would it be possible to mirror the 2004.2 dir in my 
> dev.g.o homedir? 
> 22:14 < pvdabeel> experimental would be fine, releases would be even 
> cooler 
> 22:16 < pvdabeel> ah and btw. the skynet.be mirror is terribly 
> outdated 
> 22:18 <@jforman> just ppc mirrors are down? or admins arent mirroring 
> ppc ? 
> 22:19 <@jforman> pvdabeel: make a mirror bug about the skynet one 
> being out dated and i can direct that to the admin there 
> 22:19 <@jforman> pvdabeel: i would prefer things be stuck in 
> experimental if its testing ppc stuff. 
> 22:19 < pvdabeel> jforman: ppcmirrors down 
> 22:19 < pvdabeel> jforman: would it be possible to put the livecd, 
> snapshot and stages in releases and grp in experimental? 
> 22:19 < pvdabeel> I'd be willing to do the same for 2004.3 if that 
> could help save some space 
> 22:20 <@jforman> pvdabeel: you have access to throw it in 
> /space/experimental-local on toucan 
> 22:20 <@jforman> in the appropriate dir of course 
> 22:20 < pvdabeel> jforman: k could you update the message in the 
> releases directory to mention the experimental directory? 
> 22:21 <@jforman> yeah 
> 22:21 <@jforman> remind me in a bit. trying to study for midterms 
> 22:21 < pvdabeel> define a bit ;-) 
> 22:23 <@jforman> 5-6 hours for me 
> 
> 
> 
> On 18 Oct 2004, at 11:07, Luke-Jr wrote: 
> 
> 
> > On Oct 17 20:11:38 in #gentoo-ppc: 
> > 
> > > <Pylon> pvdabeel: How many space do we need for 2004.3? 
> > > <pvdabeel> Pylon: at least 5G 
> > > <Pylon> pvdabeel: For stages, ISOs and GRP, right? 
> > > <pvdabeel> yep 
> > > <pvdabeel> asking infra to put it in experimental 
> > > <pvdabeel> or releases - who knows ;-) 
> > > <pvdabeel> Pylon: I've asked in #gentoo-mirrors 
> > > <pvdabeel> Pylon: could you ask klieber? Who knows politely 
> > > asking might 
> > > 
> > help 
> > 
> > > <pvdabeel> Pylon: jforman is working on it 
> > > <pvdabeel> Pylon: jforman suggests experimental? 
> > > <Pylon> pvdabeel: What should we do into experimental? 
> > > <pvdabeel> Pylon: we put 2004.2 there 
> > > <Luke-Jr_> Pylon: so 2004.1 LiveCD's should be fine 
> > > <Pylon> pvdabeel: So, we should put the ISOs in experimental? 
> > > <pvdabeel> and update the message in the release directory to 
> > > mention 
> > > 
> > experimental 
> > 
> > > <Pylon> pvdabeel: Ah 2004.2 for the time until 2004.3 is out? 
> > > <pvdabeel> yep 
> > > --- big snip --- 
> > > <spyderous> hm, which stage do i use? 
> > > <spyderous> g4, i assume 
> > > <Pylon> spyderous: g4 -- or a testing 2004.3-stage. 
> > > <Pylon> spyderous: Like 
> > > 
> > http://dev.gentoo.org/~pvdabeel/2004.3/stage1-ppc-20040926.tar.bz2 
> > 
> > > <spyderous> why don't you guys stick those in experimental 
> > > <Pylon> spyderous: Oh, we just got the information from infra 
> > > today, that we 
> > > 
> > are "allowed" to use experimental. 
> > 
> > > <spyderous> of course you're allowed to use it. 
> > > <Pylon> spyderous: Currently it's uploading to experimental. 
> > > <Pylon> spyderous: If you ask klieber, then not...  Probably his 
> > > mind 
> > > 
> > changed lately. 
> > 
> > > <Pylon> Nevertheless.  It's solved now. 
> > > <spyderous> probably because infra was getting a thousand emails 
> > > asking wtf 
> > > 
> > happened to all the ppc releases 
> > 
> > > <Pylon> Probably.  And our self-organised two mirrors are also 
> > > down now. 
> > > <Pylon> And the sooner we are about to release 2004.3 the more is 
> > > asked for 
> > > 
> > 2004.2 in this channel.  It's a kind of being annoyed. 
> > --  
> > Luke-Jr 
> > Developer, Utopios 
> > http://utopios.org/ 
> > 
>  
> 



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