New vegastrike for F-10: 500MB !! ??

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:27:01AM +0200, Rudolf Kastl wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 05:31:26PM +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> >  > On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 08:59 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >  > > Hi All,
> >  > >
> >  > > I'm planning on updating vegastrike to the new 0.5.0 upstream release for F-10
> >  > > and maybe later F-9 / F-8 too, but vegastrike has been dead for a while and now
> >  > > makes some huge changes, so better to keep the old trusted version for F-8 /
> >  > > F-9 for a while.
> >  > >
> >  > > However the 0.5.0 datafiles are 500 Mb b2zipped! So is this a problem?
> >  >
> >  > That depends.  Are you wanting it installed on the Live CD? 8-]
> >
> >  For Live CD it is obviously out of the question, it wouldn't even fit
> >  there, but even in the Everything trees 500MB of data for a game is IMHO too
> >  much.  Remember many people mirror the whole Everything tree to do local
> >  installs etc.
> 
> but i really dont see the issue here, simply because you could just
> exclude that one package from mirroring. what if someone adds 100 x
> 5mb packages tomorrow... the everything mirror scripts will then have
> to mirror the same size.

yum users will get confused if mirrors start excluding by package name
(instead of by directory).  MirrorManager expects that if you have a
directory, you have the _whole_ directory.  yum metadata does to.  yum
will request the file because the metadata says it's there; the mirror
will return a 404 which the user will see and then move to the next
entry in the mirrorlist; repeat...  it'll work, but it'll be ugly.

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux