Re: snapshot.debian.net
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 01:12:43PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> I consider binary packages as extrem useful to check for dependency
> changes etc,
That can be done by having an archive of packages files alone.
> or for fixing issues in some core packages where you need to take an
> older version for building a newer one.
Would one really do that after 6 months, the current on-and-about
keeping time for .deb's on ftp-master & merkel? I seriously doubt that
-- for past stable releases and revisions, ok, but for unstable/testing?
Those are by definition development branches, and older .deb's loose
relevance after some time, nobody has them anymore, and whatever effect
they had is no longer supported anyway in not a single way.
For source packages that's different indeed, but a source only
snapshot.d.o would at this moment be about 100GB, which is *much* better
handleble, and is viable for some .d.o machine to provide as
'debian-snapshot' and that will probably get at least a few mirrors
without any Debian expenses spend on it.
--Jeroen
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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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