On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 18:34 +0300, Marius Mauch 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.
No, it would almost double the space used by the release. Current releases use about 12-14G of space. Doubling that would mean reducing the amount of stuff we're allowed to distribute dramatically, essentially crippling our release capabilities. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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