-dbg packages mirror occupation: ~1/3, 220 GB
Hello,
Out of ~610 GB of data in mirrors (all archs, source, and arch-indep), there
are around 230 GB of -dbg packages !
-> The impact is 1/3 of mirror space (that means mirror sponsors cost) is used
for dbg packages.
Ideas, please comment / propose yours:
* Let mirrors admins exclude dbg ?
However, while admins have the ability to exclude archs, excluding -dbg would
not guarantee anymore that a file present in Package.gz of mirror and dist can
be downloaded for this same mirror.
It may be handled at this level, redirecting/proxying these dbg files.
Involving DD:
* More compression ?
After some tests on linux and webkit dbg packages, I cannot see any improvement
compressing them with xz, even -9, over default gz.
* Define some guidelines to determine whether building -dbg packages is worth.
Involving ftpmasters:
* Split to another archive, similar to the data.debian.org project ?
http://www.debian.org/mirror/size
http://alioth.debian.org/~spaillard/dbg-size/dbg-size-per-arch-result
http://alioth.debian.org/~spaillard/dbg-size/dbg-size-per-source.result
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Simon Paillard
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