Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:06:20 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: jason andrade <jason@rtfmconsult.com> Cc: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd mirroring/release strategy over the next 12 months ? Message-ID: <20040121000619.GA21732@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.50.0401201418140.4689-100000@luna.rtfmconsult.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.50.0401201418140.4689-100000@luna.rtfmconsult.com>
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--azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 02:27:10PM +1000, jason andrade wrote: > o number of architectures being supported/released - is this likely to > increase ? Yes, sooner or later. For example, the PowerPC port might mature enough this year to start building packages. > o size of the freebsd archive - release and ISO images have been growing > but the real killer has been the multi architecture packages trees. >=20 > are there any plans to try and reduce this overall ? e.g not spin a > packages tree of this size out for every architecture ? No, that would be counterproductive. If you don't want to carry the less popular architectures for space/bandwidth reasons then just configure your mirror accordingly. Kris --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFADcJ7Wry0BWjoQKURApP4AJwNjpV8W0Yc8ly4sYf1kn0FRfMswgCgz8/d vwJ+uRnkX3+HK5un1gNlVmo= =79HA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU--
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