On 5/16/05, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This would add quite a bit of space to the mirrors. The average stage3 > tarball is about 100MB. So you can assume that the packages would equal > about the same. Multiply this by the number of releasing arches, and > possibly even subarches, and you have an additional 1GB just from > x86/ppc.
i don't believe this was meant to be a full replace anything that breaks kind of system here. just a simple rescue program that would get you very basic stuff, like portage, python, the toolchain. for any arch they could be optimized to the lowest common denominator, like i386... and then once they are installed and the user's system works again, they use the again working portage or compiler to rebuild the exact version they want. it isn't a huge substantial hit, and the rescue packages don't have to be the latest version in question, they can be updated once a release, or once a year, leaving a fairly small footprint. i also like the idea of it being wholly seperate from portage, which neatly eliminates several points of failure, and keeps the portage code a bit easier to control. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
