From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 13 17:15:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C794B16A403 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:15:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 208FF43D5A for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:14:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1AD41A3C20; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:14:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5AE6D51305; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:14:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:14:44 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Brian Reichert Message-ID: <20060913171443.GA17421@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20060913151529.GA19808@lakshmi.susmita.org> <20060913170313.GC15205@numachi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060913170313.GC15205@numachi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pruning the FreeBSD software for mirroring X-BeenThere: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "FreeBSD Distributions Hubs: mail sup ftp" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:15:34 -0000 --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 01:03:13PM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 08:45:29PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > However we are concerned about the size of 300GB. Is there a way by wh= ich we can prune certain "unnecesssary" or let me put it this way, less fre= quently downloaded stuff? >=20 > Depending on how you mirror (rsync, CVSup, etc.), you can craft exclude > clauses to avoid what you want. You can almost certainly drop the ia64 packages without anyone noticing, but you should really try to mirror the full i386 and amd64 sets. sparc64 is probably lower use, but still worth mirroring if you can (at least 6.x and 7.x). Kris --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFFCDyCWry0BWjoQKURAj70AJUayf2pfrk2hGrD5W9icZWBeTRDAKDP9zhL NEjAsLVPn6xiTbuWMajAZw== =bYtn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm--