Re: gnome stuff in debian.org web tree
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 12:17:30PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 07:05:24PM +0800, Andrew Howell wrote:
> > Why is there gnome stuff inside the debian.org web tree?
> >
> > Same goes for SPI and Openhardware etc
> >
> > Gnome is what I'm mainly concerned about as my mirror fetches a LOT
> > of gnome stuff daily.
> >
> > Do mirror sites really need to fetch all this stuff?
> >
> I had a feeling one of the mirrors would raise this point eventually.
>
> Basically, it was done this way because it is easy. Putting projects
> Debian^H^H^H^H^H^HSPI sponsors inside the Debian web directory means
> they automatically get mirrored with Debian. The gnome pages were only
> about 17MB last time I checked (although they do seem to make a lot of
> changes every day).
Yeah I gathered this much :)
> I would prefer it if all the projects were inside of the spi pages
> since this more accurately reflects the political situation. Although
> as a practical matter, it is really Debian people that are sponsoring
> the projects.
>
> I just checked and it appears that none of the Debian sites are listed
> as web mirrors of gnome. Anyone have an idea who originally wanted us
> to set this up?
I wouldn't mind so much if I thought there was value to it, but I doubt
anyone uses the mirror site's versions of gnome/openhardware/spi as
they aren't known about.
If we can change that then I can see a point to downloading all this stuff
(gnome) every night.
BTW, gnome is actually 290 meg not 17 meg and at least 35 meg of that changes
nightly as there is this one really annoying file 'gnome/lxr/xref' which
changes daily and is 34 meg.
Andrew
--
Dehydration - 34%, Recollection of previous evening - 2%, embarrassment
factor - 91%. Advise repair schedule:- off line for 36 hours, re-boot
startup disk, and replace head - wow, what a night!
-- Kryten in Red Dwarf `The Last Day'
Andrew Howell
Perth, Western Australia andrew@it.net.au
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