On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 02:21 -0500, Alec Warner wrote: > The bonus is that we then need to have a fetcher that runs over the main > tree and all supported release trees, and this of course increases > mirror size as we now have distfiles in the tree from a year ago to > support a year old release. I am unsure how much space this would take > up; but this is an obstacle that must be overcome (somehow), preferably > by giving infra an estimate on the space reqs.
Well, we have to provide distfiles for everything we've ever released a binary of, forever, to comply with the GPL. As of this release, I kept a copy of all of the distfiles for the entire release, and can make a DVD of it, on request. This fulfills our requirements with the GPL. I would bet that for most of the tree, the size increase would be negligible, since quite a bit of the tree doesn't change every six months. Of course, the stuff that does change tends to be the larger things, like desktop environments and such. I wouldn't have a clue how to give you an idea of the space requirements until the next release comes about and I also have distfiles for that release. That will give you an idea, based only on what we release, though. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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