Re: recovery status update
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 05:43:25PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote:
> * Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [2003-12-30 01:59]:
> | I've almost finished writing a tool with the same interface as madison
> | that works on Packages and Sources files, so can be run on any mirror.
> | (Naturally it's slower than the real thing.) I'll put it up for
> | experimentation shortly.
>
> but this means, you must have all Packages and Sources files available
> (for every arch and distribution).
That's right. However you don't need a full mirror to do that, only the
Packages.gz and Sources.gz files under dists/, which comes to a mere
84Mb for the US archive. If you're already taking the 8Gb hit for a full
single-arch unstable mirror then I should think this'd be a drop in the
ocean.
Alternatively, you can use gluck, which is still available to all
developers. I'm testing my program there.
> I think a webinterface around madison would help a little bit more.
Right, that'd be a bit nicer, but I've no access to do such a thing so
I'm doing what I can.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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