Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
Ok, I think I understand. Suppose that we have an arch that does have enough download share, and meets every requirement but the existence of sufficient buildds to keep up and developer machines, and that only because hardware hasn't come available.
Who's downloading it, if there's no hardware to run it on?
All the stuff is on scc; how do we transfer it back? Will it be easy,or a major obstacle?
Stuff'll be transferred from scc to ftp.d.o once it gets enough mirror usage; that's awkward, and will probably be done in daily, half-gig stages over two weeks or so, but it's not a major obstacle. There's no indication that it will actually happen though; amd64'll probably just be assumed to be popular enough as soon as it's in the archive, and as far as other architectures are concerned, even powerpc isn't remotely near popular enough to qualify.
Cheers, aj