On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 15:43 -0400, Patrick McLean wrote: > No it's not a trivial amount, but it's also important that we comply > with the licenses of the software that we distribute. I think that > storing a gig or two extra on the mirrors (or more on the mirrors that > archive /historical) is fairly trivial compared to violating the GPL.
I always find arguments quite funny from people that don't know the situation, at all. It would be well more than a couple gigabytes of data. In fact, it would be prohibitively more data. Quite simply, I'm going to work with Infrastructure and see what we can come up with. Most likely, we're going to have to quit shipping /releases/historical entirely, since there *will* be source code, specifically patches made by Gentoo developers, that will be lost in the years since things like 1.2 were released. Now, I can easily just wrap up all of the sources on our build box after a release. That will pull in everything for amd64/x86, anyway. I'd have to get everyone else to do the same, then we could archive that somewhere, but it would only be valid from this release forward, meaning we would have to pull everything except the upcoming release from the mirrors when we did it. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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