On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:43:57 +0200 Pierre Schmitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 21.10.2011 15:57, schrieb Sergej Pupykin: > > At Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:43:12 -0300, > > Ángel Velásquez <[email protected]> wrote: > >> And.. Sergej, please try to focus on the problem that brings > >> having huge packages and add the fact if those huge packages won't > >> be demanded it will be a waste of space + mirror bandwidth. > >> > > > > Is it really problem? I have no info about disk space and > > bandwitdth problems. > > > > If yes, we should define what does "huge" means. And should we apply > > "huge" criteria only to games? > > Resources are always limited. There are disk space constraints on > sigurd (which holds the AUR and community repo). You may add about 5 > to 10GB packages here. And don't forget that you also have to host the > sources for e.g. GPL packages. Bandwidth for our main server is also > very limited. But if those big packages don't get updated to often > this is acceptable. > > Let's also not forget about our mirrors who will have to handle the > increasing needs for disk space and especially bandwidth and traffic. > Especially for those countries where these resources are not cheap. > E.g. we were told that mirrors in South Amercia dropped Arch for these > reasons. > > Long story short: I would ask the TUs to use their resources more > responsible. Of course we can talk about increasing disk space etc. if > really needed but this wont help for long if everybody thinks there > were no limitations. Maybe it would be wise to decide on an upper > bound for the community repo size and to operate within this > limitation. > > But this should be handled within the TU group; I just wanted to make > aware of a potential problem. > > Greetings, > > Pierre > A mirror is not obliged to mirror all our repositories, right? I would not cripple our package set because some mirrors can't deal with it. Rather: package all games you want to package, mirrors can decide not to mirror the community repo if they don't like it. Dieter
