Jim Walker wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: >> >> I still believe it is not the right place to store this information. >> Quite frankly, I wouldn't want us to be using what resources we have >> for serving this content instead of the content we really care about: >> packages. >> >> I also think that this content will end up being duplicated, as I >> would imagine that you would need a copy of all of this content >> somewhere else anyway (such as a source code control repository). >> >> It would seem more logical to me to have pointers to wherever it is >> that you're already hosting that content instead of duplicating it. > > +1 > > I think it's a waste of storage and network resources to store the > source tarballs in the ips repos. Especially if we have duplicate > pkg versions.
In all fairness, since the repository stores files by hash, duplicate pkg versions would still mean that source tarballs, etc. would only be physically stored once in the repository. In addition, while my predictions of performance doom may be true, without trying out Laca's idea, there is no good way to accurately quantify how it will affect performance. Nevertheless, I still remain opposed to storing these resources in the package repository. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
