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bug#14851: linux-libre-3.3.8-gnu disappeared
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Alexandre Oliva |
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bug#14851: linux-libre-3.3.8-gnu disappeared |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Jul 2013 16:40:28 -0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
On Jul 19, 2013, Andreas Enge <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am Freitag, 19. Juli 2013 schrieb Alexandre Oliva:
>> However, considering we put out multiple GBs of builds per
>> week, I don't think it's realistic to keep them all forever. Not in our
>> own server, not at ftp.gnu.org.
> As far as I know, ftp.gnu.org would only be concerned with the source,
I don't know about that. I've seen binaries in ftp.gnu.org in the past.
This should indeed reduce significantly the space requirements to a bit
less than 1GB per week, considering 4 releases per week in 3 different
compression formats.
OTOH, if we're to be strict, we should publish only the deblob scripts,
for those are the ultimate sources produced by the GNU Linux-libre
project. The tarballs and diffs and deltas are just the result of
running those scripts on tarballs produced by third parties.
The scripts would be trivial to retain indefinitely; even more so
because they seldom change for stable releases.
> and these source tarballs are usually kept indefinitely.
> One also need not add the patch and diff files, so that the amount of
> storage would be quite manageable.
The diff files are probably no big deal (10% increase, not an order of
magnitude like the build tarballs and debuginfo rpms). Excluding them
would probably make for more work in the upload script, though.
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