Alexandre Oliva <[email protected]> skribis: > On Jul 19, 2013, [email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > >> What do you mean by “multiple GBs of builds per week”? Linux{,-Libre} >> releases are not that frequent, are they? > > They are. ATM there are 4 active stable releases that each get one new > release per week. There are 3 other LTS stable branches that get > releases less often. And then, there are the weekly development -rcs > for the next release, that I seldom start tracking long before the > release is out. This is just for sources, and it adds up to almost 1GB > per week.
Ah OK, I wasn’t aware of that. > Adding binaries to the picture grows the entire size by a little bit Yes, but binaries is not what we’re interested in here. :-) >> If size turns out to be a problem, we could choose to keep only LTS >> releases on ftp.gnu.org, for instance. > > Keeping only LTS wouldn't help guix, though, since you're not using an > LTS release. Heh but that’s not set in stone, and we don’t use Linux-Libre for anything beyond building libc. That’ll change in the near future though. Thanks, Ludo’.
