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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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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

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