On 31 January 2010 17:05, Hannes Rist <hrist@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > >> 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 > > I strongly second that. Having a geographically organized hierarchy would > be nice, so that there are tier-1 mirrors in every country (of course not > if there are for example only two mirrors/country those could sync from > the geographically closest tier-1 mirror), those being machines with a > somewhat reasonable connection, and then have the mirrors sync from those > machines and only the tier-1 (mirror.us,mirror.eu,mirror.de and the like) > sync from rsync.archlinux.org and all others sync from those. > As Pierre pointed out this is mostly an organizational problem as in > selecting the tier-1 mirrors and asking the owners if they're going to > support this plan. Eg for the tier-1 mirrors we could ask the guys from > kernel.org for the main us and eu mirrors, and for eg germany ask the > owner of ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de or maybe Hosteurope. I don't know the > situation in countries != de, but IIRC we have a lot of mirrors here. > > >> * 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 > > I don't know much about the package-system but if theres a 25% decrease in > package size this sounds like one would like to have this anway. > > > Just my 2 cents on this topic. > regards, > Hannes 'hrist' Rist > > -- > Hannes Rist > +----------------------------------------------------+ > | Crew Selfnet e.V. NOC: admin@xxxxxxxxxx | > | Allmandring 8A http://www.selfnet.de | > | 70569 Stuttgart Fax: +49 711 620 4796 | > +----------------------------------------------------+ > > Hi all, I think that the syncing would be much less painful if there was some possibility to tell mirrors that package foo has been moved from [testing] to [extra]. Then these rebuilds would be only a matter of distributing information which packages should be moved from [testing] (that could be done by one text file). Lukas
