On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 09:00 -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.
Actually, I've gone back and estimated this based on what information I have from the release, and I came up with something more like 8G for 2006.0, though we already have some things that are "lost" from that release. Anyway, I really am starting to like the DVD available via the store idea more and more, as it only means Release Engineering needs to do a little extra work, and it requires no extra work for our mirrors or Infrastructure team. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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