Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 11:24:07 +0000 From: Olafur Osvaldsson <oli@isnic.is> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Impending cleanup of ports/distfiles Message-ID: <20020905112407.GA67676@isnic.is> In-Reply-To: <20020905031827.GA25818@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20020905031827.GA25818@xor.obsecurity.org>
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--IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Kris, Why not just put in more disks, I don't think 3GB is worth it as this will = be filled in a short time. What kind of hardware would be needed to add disk space to ftp-master? /Oli On Wed, 04 Sep 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote: > I am planning to clean out a lot of the stale cruft from the > ports/distfiles directory, keeping only the distfiles associated to > recent releases (4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.6.2) as well as the current ports > collection. The need for this is that ftp-master is full, and there's > not enough room to keep all the package collections and releases > online that we need (a full package set takes up about 5GB thesedays). >=20 > Unfortunately, no lists of distfiles wew kept at the time of release, > but I have reconstructed the list by checking out a copy of the ports > tree from the release, and performing a full 'make fetch' against > ftp-master's distfile collection to extract the files that were part > of the released ports collection. >=20 > This is expected to save around 3 GB on ftp-master (13GB -> 10GB). If > anyone objects to this, or thinks I should preserve distfiles from > older releases, please speak up now. >=20 > Kris >=20 --=20 Olafur Osvaldsson Systems Administrator Internet a Islandi hf. Tel: +354 525-5291 Email: oli@isnic.is --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9dz7W8xNRBRknOFwRAtOHAKDHR3VlQrEX9fcaT2RM/nRZ+nNY+QCgnd4R +EJJsHFRRo8YLTWydB0E/uw= =An4a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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