On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 13:31 -0400, James Laska wrote: > 3) Host several days of rawhide > > Continue mirroring just 'rawhide' latest ... no change there. However, > begin hosting timestamp'd daily copies of rawhide. > > rawhide -> rawhide-20080604 > rawhide-20080604 > rawhide-20080603 > rawhide-20080602 > rawhide-20080601 > > The idea here being we have a working rawhide for at least several days > in order to walk through a test matrix. > > Jesse: You know the internals of the mirroring, you probably have better > insight to say why this isn't done, and perhaps why we don't want this. Mostly that this can balloon into several hundred gigs worth of extra data quite quickly depending on the changes. Bear in mind that a single Openoffice.org build consumes 5.1 gigs of disk space. 5.1gigs. A single build. As I look through the build history, I see rawhide builds on the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, etc... That's over 25gigs just in one package. Obviously oo.org is an extreme example but there is a very real size issue to be concerned with, and much more mirror churn to deal with and a larger barrier of entry for new mirrors. Now somebody is going to say something about deltas, and that's great for the rpm consumer, but realistically we're going to have to store the full rpms somewhere and mirror those around. Now, storing multiple copies of just boot.iso somewhere may be just as valuable (since you're really after the stable installer image) and much easier to accomplish. It's only a few hundred megs of extra data to contend with. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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