Re: opening morgue/rhona for public access? (was Re: .deb archive?)
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 12:35:32PM +0100, Richard Atterer wrote:
> > ...by which I mean it doesn't delete them from the pool at all,
> > which means they stay on mirrors and such. It's only a couple of
> > days but it's not nothing.
> Could you be more specific? How many days exactly?
Two.
> If at some point I decide to provide weekly testing CD images via my
> scheme, I must be sure that during the week after the generation of
> the CD image none of the .debs used for that image get deleted from
> the mirrors.
Interesting.
> Ideally, I'd like superseded packages to stay in the pool for at least
> 12 days (7 days plus enough time for changes to propagate to all
> mirrors, and for slow downloaders to finish downloading).
That'd be about a 6GB hit, considering how much stuff gets uploaded to
incoming on a daily basis. I'm not really sure that's acceptable.
Cheers,
aj
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