On Jul 19, 2013, Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> wrote: > Am Freitag, 19. Juli 2013 schrieb Alexandre Oliva: >> However, considering we put out multiple GBs of builds per >> week, I don't think it's realistic to keep them all forever. Not in our >> own server, not at ftp.gnu.org.
> As far as I know, ftp.gnu.org would only be concerned with the source, I don't know about that. I've seen binaries in ftp.gnu.org in the past. This should indeed reduce significantly the space requirements to a bit less than 1GB per week, considering 4 releases per week in 3 different compression formats. OTOH, if we're to be strict, we should publish only the deblob scripts, for those are the ultimate sources produced by the GNU Linux-libre project. The tarballs and diffs and deltas are just the result of running those scripts on tarballs produced by third parties. The scripts would be trivial to retain indefinitely; even more so because they seldom change for stable releases. > and these source tarballs are usually kept indefinitely. > One also need not add the patch and diff files, so that the amount of > storage would be quite manageable. The diff files are probably no big deal (10% increase, not an order of magnitude like the build tarballs and debuginfo rpms). Excluding them would probably make for more work in the upload script, though. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer
