Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 02:17:33 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Makoto MATSUSHITA <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Breakdown of FreeBSD content? Message-ID: <v04220808b681661c38ed@[10.0.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <20010110091500N.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> References: <v04220829b68104706da9@[172.17.1.121]> <20010110091500N.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
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At 9:15 AM +0900 2001/1/10, Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote: > <URL:ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/dir.sizes>; is for you. Thanks for the info! Now, does anyone know why ports/distfiles is ~6GB and whether this needs to be included on a typical mirror? What about ports/i386 (~23GB) and ports/alpha (~9GB)? In fact, the entire ports subsystem appears to be about 39GB in size, but IIRC, the behaviour I've seen is that the Makefile tries the "standard" primary source for the tarball(s), then the main FreeBSD ftp server(s?), and then may alternatively fall through to any of a small selection of other machines. It would seem to me that it would not be a real loss for a mirror site to omit the ports subsystem. What about the development/ tree at about 3.5GB? I assume that the releases/alpha stuff could be left off (at about 1.75GB), but does anyone know what could relatively safely be left out of releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES (~2.5GB)? Thanks! -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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