Future of fedora.us and fedoralegacy.org (was Re: Legacy mirror structure)

Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com
Tue Jan 20 13:32:28 UTC 2004


On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Warren Togami wrote:

> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > 
> > I'm somewhat tossing/turning over this one.  I've ran across servers that 
> > don't have the SRPMS and it pisses me off that I have to hunt down another 
> > fast server that has my content.  To make our master server self 
> > hosting(well a little beyond) I'd rather have it there, since we can plan 
> > for the space usage anyway.  Individual mirrors can choose to 
> > exclude/hardlink this directory if they wish.
> 
> You want to have convenience for yourself at the expense of several GB's 
> for the many mirrors that don't exclude or hardlink?  I would highly 
> advocate for "smart by default".

If they do not exclude or hardlink that is their problem. I agree with Jesse
PLEASE include the SRPMS. It is a PITA to go looking for them if you need
them. Just because not everyone uses them does not mean No one uses them.
Disk is cheap and if someone has the space to do a mirror in the first place
they most likely have the space for the SRPMS. If they do not how hard is it
to exclude them from an rsync job? I fail to see what you are really trying
to save. You know it is trivial to exclude things.


Tom





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