Re: gnome stuff in debian.org web tree
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 07:56:49PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 08:04:09AM +0800, Andrew Howell wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 12:17:30PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote:
> > >
> > > I just checked and it appears that none of the Debian sites are listed
> > > as web mirrors of gnome. Anyone have an idea who originally wanted us
> > > to set this up?
> >
> > I wouldn't mind so much if I thought there was value to it, but I doubt
> > anyone uses the mirror site's versions of gnome/openhardware/spi as
> > they aren't known about.
> >
> > If we can change that then I can see a point to downloading all this stuff
> > (gnome) every night.
> >
> > BTW, gnome is actually 290 meg not 17 meg and at least 35 meg of that changes
> > nightly as there is this one really annoying file 'gnome/lxr/xref' which
> > changes daily and is 34 meg.
> >
> So I was off by an order of magnitude. Big deal. :)
> For some reason people are reluctant to modify the websync.conf file. All
> you need to do is to add a --exclude=whatever entry to the EXCLUDE variable
> to get rid of something. This particular file seems particularly annoying.
> I just looked at the file and it seems to be of little value so I added
> --exclude=gnome/lxr/xref to the entry adding the gnome pages into the Debian
> web space.
Okay I'll do that :)
Andrew
--
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factor - 91%. Advise repair schedule:- off line for 36 hours, re-boot
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Andrew Howell
Perth, Western Australia andrew@it.net.au
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