Re: Proposal: incremental release process (the package pool)
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > This makes me think about dropping the symlinks completely.
> >
> > So we can have a real, physical pool of any sort, and all distributions are
> > simply a packages file with the relevant constellation.
>
> This makes it impossible for people with just a few GB of disk space, but
> not 15, to mirror only the version of debian they are interested in.
Maybe the answer to that is that we need better mirroring tools. It is
already hugely difficult to say just mirror 'potato' i386 because you need
to follow a forest of symlinks into slink!
I don't think this is a real problem if the 'pools' are split up by arch
and by non-free/contrib/main.
Jason
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