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bug#14851: linux-libre-3.3.8-gnu disappeared
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#14851: linux-libre-3.3.8-gnu disappeared |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Jul 2013 22:30:50 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.130007 (Ma Gnus v0.7) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Jul 19, 2013, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
>
>> What do you mean by “multiple GBs of builds per week”? Linux{,-Libre}
>> releases are not that frequent, are they?
>
> They are. ATM there are 4 active stable releases that each get one new
> release per week. There are 3 other LTS stable branches that get
> releases less often. And then, there are the weekly development -rcs
> for the next release, that I seldom start tracking long before the
> release is out. This is just for sources, and it adds up to almost 1GB
> per week.
Ah OK, I wasn’t aware of that.
> Adding binaries to the picture grows the entire size by a little bit
Yes, but binaries is not what we’re interested in here. :-)
>> If size turns out to be a problem, we could choose to keep only LTS
>> releases on ftp.gnu.org, for instance.
>
> Keeping only LTS wouldn't help guix, though, since you're not using an
> LTS release.
Heh but that’s not set in stone, and we don’t use Linux-Libre for
anything beyond building libc.
That’ll change in the near future though.
Thanks,
Ludo’.