On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:20:33PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:14:12PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > > Let me restate the facts. Again. Very slowly. > > > > ftp.au.debian.org was broken. > > mirror.aarnet.edu.au was broken. > > Both of the above had outdated packages, for their Packages file. > > The kernel packages take up 110meg. > > More megabytes, more stress. > > More stress, more chance of breaking. > > Why don't you mail these site's admins and find out the real reason of them > breaking rather than guessing?
So, you're telling me, that there's no way that the unnecessary duplication of kernel headers, in stressing mirrors, storage, and bandwidth more, contributed to this out-of-syncness? Put it this way: If we had 7000 1k packages, there would be virtually no breakages. If we had 7000 10meg packages, however, then you start to run into problems. You see? > > It's simple. You create a monster like this, you are helping (read: helping. > > not solely causing. helping. don't misquote me yet again) to create more > > stress on mirrors. Which makes them more likely to break. Like ftp.au.d.o > > and mirror.aarnet for the last 3 days (finally fixed tonight). > > It's hardly the biggest package directory in Debian. With the latest > version, it's even smaller than a few documentation packages. No argument there, but this is where necessity and duplication comes into play. These documentation packages, don't have 14 copies of the same file now, do they? -- Daniel Stone Linux Kernel Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 G!>CS d s++:- a---- C++ ULS++++$>B P---- L+++>++++ E+(joe)>+++ W++ N->++ !o K? w++(--) O---- M- V-- PS+++ PE- Y PGP>++ t--- 5-- X- R- tv-(!) b+++ DI+++ D+ G e->++ h!(+) r+(%) y? UF++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
