On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 18:34:01 +0300 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Patrick McLean schrieb: > > I have absolutely zero experience with catalyst, but couldn't it be > > made to create a source CD ISO when it is generating the binary > > one? Just make a cd with all the distfiles used in the ISO, and > > keep the source ISO with the binary one in /historical. > > Creating an ISO isn't a problem (assuming you have the sources, which > for historical releases might be a problem), but it would require > another several hundred megabytes per release on the mirrors which > isn't exactly a trivial amount. That's not good enough. We shouldn't do stuff that doesn't comply with the relevant license, I'm sure most would agree. Incidentally, the sources don't have to be on all the mirrors, assuming that's a problem at all. We could supply just one source server and rate-limit it; after all over the long term very few people will actually need to retrieve source for older releases, and when releases are new the sources are available much more easily via emerge and the mirrors. Might be worth while making that clear to people downloading the CDs. An additional approach could be for releng to maintain a list of willing volunteers around the world who would retain source CDs/DVDs for local distribution (could limit access to the above-mentioned source-cd server to these volunteers). Or if we want to be clever, setup a source-request email alias which releng can farm out to nearby volunteers as appropriate using email acknowledgement to ensure requests are serviced. Point being, there are numerous ways we can comply, and no excuse for not complying from now on. -- Kevin F. Quinn
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