On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 06:38:01PM +0000, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 30.01.2008, 12:31 -0500 schrieb Joey Hess: > > Daniel Leidert wrote: > > > Why should I mirror the upstream VCS and blow up > > > svn.d.o or my own VCS servers? > > > > Because disk space is so much cheaper than your time that I can't even > > find the adjectives to describe how much cheaper it is? > > My current workflow is fast enough. That's what I thought back when I used svn. I know I was wrong. > I already explained, that I perfectly work with the debian/-only setup > (without symlinking or exporting anything, as suggested by different > people). So why do you argue with "my" time? Putting the whole source > under VCS and checking it out makes this workflow slower and not > faster IMHO. Well, the point is that your repository isn't self contained in that case. Thanks to my workflow and pristine-tar, my $SCM holds _everything_ from what I need to regenerate the orig.tar.gz, to my packaging, my patches, and the upstream sources. All of that in less space than two of the orig.tar.gz of my upstreams. Your call. What I know for sure, is that upstream websites don't live forever, and that google doesn't mirrors tar.gz yet. Again, your call, I know where I stand. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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