On 02/21/2010 09:02 AM, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:30:26AM +0530, Sawrub wrote: > >> FTP listing of the Fedora mirrors hosted in India, is missing the >> debuginfo packages. I'm able to locate the same under most of the >> International mirrors with few of them to list picked from the mirror list >> hosted at [1]http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/12/ are >> > As you note later, yum will eventually fall back to finding a mirror > somewhere globally, though perhaps not locally, that contains the > debuginfo packages. So while it may not be quite as fast for you to > download them, they are available. > > Our mirrors do a fantastic job for Fedora - we couldn't handle the > several million installed systems worldwide without them. At the same > time, each mirror has its own constraints on what resources they can > provide. A full Fedora mirror alone takes just under 1TB right now, > which is quite a lot to keep on every mirror. Mirrors therefore can > be selective about what they carry, the only requirement being that > they exclude at a whole directory level (they can't mirror only some > files in any single directory). > > Historically, debuginfo hasn't been all that useful. With abrt being > more widely used, and people being prodded through the GUI to download > debuginfo to submit better bug reports, debuginfo is being used quite > a bit more than before. But it's still a small number of downloads, > but fairly large in disk space size, in comparison to all the other > packages in the distro. So, a mirror, trying to be efficient in the > use of their disk space and download bandwidth, often will exclude the > debuginfo packages exactly because they are large and infrequently > requested. > > I'll send a note to the mirrors asking them to consider carrying > debuginfo, but if they don't wish to, I can't make them, nor would I > even try. > > Thanks, > Matt > Fedora Mirror Wrangler > > As i mentioned in the subject itself this mail was a 'Request' from my side to the admins of the above mentioned local mirrors to add the pakages, as its solely their wish/capacity which controls this. Thanks Matt for the effort being put in. -- Saurabh Sharma Linux user number: 490644 http://sawrub-blog.blogspot.com/ Open your doors.......It's time to look beyond Windows -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
