[Please Cc: me for the answer, as I am not subscribed to the list] Hi, As you are probably aware, the alpha and hppa architectures are currently being removed from the official archive [1]. debian-ports.org got requests to import these architectures, but this is currently not possible due to disk space constraints. A big part of the disk space is used for taking regular snapshots [2] of the archive, plus some snapshots at some important moments (like a new stable release, before a major change in the toolchain, etc.). This is something that is quite useful for new architectures. However it seems a bit redundant with snapshot.debian.org, so we can probably save some disk space there. Before doing that I would like to make sure that snapshot.debian.org can really replace our regular snapshots. That's why I would like to ask you a few questions: - How is the snapshot process done? Does it tries to parse the Packages.gz file to know what to fetch, or does it tries to have a snapshot of the whole debian/ tree? - Are you able to detect if snapshot.debian.org get outdated (for example in case of problem with the mirroring pulse)? If not we can probably develop something on our side comparing the trace files. - Could the debian-ports.org people get notified a bit in advance if you plan to stop snapshotting it, so that we can be prepared to restore it our side? - Do the snapshot.debian.org people have any objections if we rely on them for the debian-ports.org snapshots? Thanks, Aurelien [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/04/msg00000.html [2] http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-snapshot/ -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
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