Am Sonntag, 31. Januar 2010 15:27:03 schrieb Dan McGee: > Thanks for signing that message, I wasn't sure it was from you. OT: Can't we strip gpg-signatures from the mailinglist? It's of no use. Use s/mime instead ;-) > The problem here is we haven't had anyone step up and finish a two > tier mirror system. The situation has improved a bit, but without a > developer actively working on it we aren't going to have it fully > implemented. There are several methods to improve the situation: * multi tier mirroring. Roman started to work on this but might need some help here. It's mostly an organizing task * Add support for using both gz and xz compressed packages to db-scripts. This way we could migrate to the way better xz compression and reduce traffic: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17280 * Implement a common package pool and link to those packages from every repo. This would have reduce the amount of transfered data from several GB to a few KB in the current case. (also an dbscritps issue) dbscripts can be found at http://projects.archlinux.org/dbscripts.git/ Everybody could help implementing this and submit patches for us to review. Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
