On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Derek Cicero wrote:
> Mike Kupfer wrote:
>>>>>>> "MO" == Michelle Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> MO> Well, it is always growing,
>> [...]
>> MO> Right now an extra 5-10MB would probably do the trick.
>>
>> An always-growing tarball will take an always-growing time to download,
>> so I'm wondering if there's a better way to deliver the PDFs. Is the
>> main reason for using a tarball to have a simple mechanism to stay
>> current (rather than downloading individual PDFs by hand)? Or are there
>> other reasons?
>>
>> I'm wondering if it would make more sense to keep the PDFs in a
>> repository. Does Rainer generate new PDFs for all the docs, or just the
>> ones that have changed since last time? If we just update the PDFs when
>> there's an actual change, a simple "hg pull -u" or "svn update" will
>> pull down (only) the new files.
>>
> I have increased the limit to 30 MB.
30MB?? Are you serious? Perhaps you meant 30GB!
Disk space (SATA drives and ZFS) are less expensive than the time
people have spent typing emails discussing it here!
Michelle - if you need space of genunix.org, you're welcome to it.
The your URL on opensolaris.org could simply redirect your clients to
where the files are.
> To Mike's point, that is a pretty big tarball, so you might want to look
> into breaking it up or providing alternative formats.
>
> Derek
>> mike
>>
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