Re: package splitting and kernel-image

[David Schleef <ds@schleef.org>]

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 09:23:17PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> 
> The point I'm making is that no mirrors here, nor anywhere, need the extra
> stress of duplicated packages like this, and we really shouldn't be
> stressing them.

Where is this written in policy?

While were at it, could you quantify the extra resources needed
to have a duplicate copy of a packge on a mirror?  Given that
almost everyone downloading packages from a mirror will only
download one of the duplicated binary packages, it seems to me
that the added resources necessary are:

  - network bandwidth to download 1 binary image from master.d.o
  - disk space for 1 binary image
  - network bandwidth for downstream mirrors, if any

Multiplied by N_ARCH, of course.  But then, not every mirror
mirrors every architecture or every package.  If you really
care about mirror stress, perhaps you could start publishing
a list of daniel-stone-approved package and a script to allow
mirrors to only mirror those packages.  Make sure that my
packages are not on it.  (My packages, by the way, are probably
less useful than an added kernel-image or ash and take up more
resources.)




dave...