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From: | Jaco Greeff |
Subject: | Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of GNU/Linux via RPM |
Date: | Wed, 13 Feb 2002 12:51:31 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010914 |
Ok. Could you please register again and specify that you will only host spec files and not the actual distribution ? We don't have the resources for this. Storing spec files is ok, storing packages will use too much resources.
Loic,I know you problably prefer the submission via savannah, but please bear with me. I just want to make 100% sure before submitting more requests that will be dead in the water.
I understand your resource constraints, however, we have the following in the planning/initial building stage to handle package updates. The program is called lvr-pkg, which downloads updated specs (.bz2'ed) and updated sources (.tar.bz2'ed) from a server if there is an update. We are focussing on providing only spec files, but also need sources distributed.
Now, this reduces the load significantly on any server: specs typically change and needs to be downloaded, packages (sources) stay current for much longer. In typicall distributions as small a change as a typo would require a redownload of the full SRPM/RPM, in our system it would only be the spec. (A K or two as compared to a Meg or two.) To build the new RPM you only need the changed spec, nothing more. (Providing you already have the source.)
We do not host packages (SRPMS/RPM) but do host sources. (My interpretation, your "package" might refer to the sources as well, hence the need for clarification.) For an example of what gets distributed, please take a look at
http://www.puxedo.org/lvr/download/[stable|unstable]/* and http://www.puxedo.org/lvr/download/[stable|unstable]/[SPECS|sources]Would this scheme work or fall into the "large resource requirements rules this out" category?
Greetings, Jaco
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