I'm using subversion since I know that your download are keeps storing old version of binaries and I need to update packages quite often (in almost two months I released 4-5 versions of some packages). So using subversion was the only way for me to not finish my gigabyte in ten days. Anyway I don't intend to publish the ISO through SVN. I hope this clarifies my strange use of SVN.
Regarding the license I was referring it to my project (Archlinux the original distribution I'm porting is under GPL v2). Each binary package has its own license meta information inside. Would you like me to clarify things in the home page of the project? Thanks for your prompt replies. Massimiliano On Feb 26, 4:36 pm, David Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On another note, a quick inspection shows that you seem to have > checked in a lot of tarballs for various projects (presumably, those > that you will provide for your distro). Aside from the fact that it's > abusing Subversion as Ben explained, I doubt that all of those are > licensed as GPLv2, which is the license you announce in your project > description. > > - Dave > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 16:28, Ben Collins-Sussman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, we're happy to help you here, but you're really abusing > > subversion. It's a version control system, not a generic distribution > > system for "release packages". It should contain source code -- like > > rpm or deb definitions, but not the binary packages themselves. And > > definitely not whole ISO images! This is why we have the "downloads" > > feature -- precisely for creating and distributing release packages. > > Do you think you can reorganize things to follow best practices, and > > make heavy use of the downloads-system instead? The rule of thumb is > > that "derivable" things (binaries, object code, releases) don't go > > into source control, only "non-derivable" things (like code and > > package definitions), since those are the things that actually need > > change-tracking. The derived stuff doesn't need change-tracking, > > because well, they can be derived from the tracked sources. :-) > > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Massimiliano Brocchini > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> my name is Massimiliano Brocchini and I'm the owner of Archlinux-i586 > >>> project (http://code.google.com/p/archlinux-i586/). > >>> This morning I hit 932 MB of disk space and I was wondering if I can get > >>> two or three gigabytes of additional disk space. > >>> I'd like to release an ISO CD image soon and add other files to SVN, so I > >>> would really appreciate it if you could give some more space to my > >>> project. > > >>> The project is running since 2nd of January 2009 and is going on very > >>> well. > >>> I publicly announced it six days ago on Archlinux forum > >>> (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=65880) and there are severak > >>> users of Archlinux really interested in contributing and many already > >>> using > >>> it. > > >>> Please feel free to contact me if you have any question. > > >>> Thanks in advance, > >>> Massimiliano Brocchini --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hosting at Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
