Number of 3.3 hi-pri PRs going up

[Phil Edwards]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:24:58PM -0600, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Steven Bosscher wrote:
> > Op di 25-02-2003, om 18:47 schreef Phil Edwards:
> > 
> > Yeah, just a "burn-on-demand" availability should be enough.
> 
> Would it be sufficient for a cron job to make an tarball of the
> CVS repository available for download say once a week? 
> 
> Was the "mail a CD" offer just to avoid the bandwidth issue?

I think so.  Once the repo is initially downloaded/installed/whatever, rsync
does a most excellent job of keeping the repo up to to date with minimal
bandwidth usage.  So a snailmailed CD would truly be a one-time setup.

Heck, we could just burn one copy and then each person mails it to
the next.  :-)


> > The current rsync repository is almost 1GB (it was +/- 950 MB on
> > December 2, 2002, and we have a new branch now and a new C++ parser), so
> > unless you can compress it to about 50% of that, you're not even going
> > to be able to burn it on a single CD.
> 
> bzip2 is usually pretty good at compressing things so if you could
> get 2-3x compression, it should fit.

It's nearly all text.  Last time I had to do that to the repo I got superb
compression ratios.

Besides, what with filename conventions vs burning software, it'd probably
be most portable to create a single repo.tar.bz2 file, and then burn that
to the disc rather than trying to mirror the structure.


> > You should stop drinking redbull then :-)

Bite your tongue, that stuff would kill a horse at fifty paces.  Coffee!  :-)


Phil

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