On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 09:00:29AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > 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.
Stupid question, but the master mirroring setup actually holds onto files after it moves them off of the gentoo mirror tier- purgatory dir. Why not just make that dir accessible via web/torrent/whatever on a seperate server? Abusing osprey for it is a bit much (mainly infra has asked to wipe files from the purgatory dir in the past, which is a no go), so seperate probably is wise. Further filtering of the files to those under gpl (pulled from pkg metadata) is doable, just would need to mangle mirror-dist a bit to maintain long term info about who owned what (instead of it's current "out of sight, out of the db" approach). Just a thought- machinery is mostly there, might as well abuse it. ~harring
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