hoi :) On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 05:22:53PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > Why not? removing arm from testing does not change at all the number of > binary arm packages being pushed each day, as the packages between > testing and unstable are shared (and only few packages go in via t-p-u). > So, the only win is that packages are faster removed - but as unstable > and testing are quite in sync, even this is not so much difference. > Adding a new arch however adds a lot of new binary packages to be pushed > each day
well, those should be about as much as are saved by removing another arch -- once the new architecture is uptodate in testing and unstable. so it seems we have two problems: * too much bandwith needed to update all mirrors. do all mirrors sync with ftp-master? would it help to establish a mirror hierarchy where only a few selected mirrors are allowed to connect to our master server? * the initial peek that is needed to fill the archive of the new architecture. As Andreas already noted, this could be solved by slowly filling the archive. other problems? other solutions? I don't think postponing the problem will help in any way. -- Martin Waitz
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