On Feb 12, 2009, at 5:23 PM, Jerry McBride <mcbrid...@comcast.net>
wrote:
Imagine my surprise when the nightly rsync of Gentoo distfiles with
ibibilo
resulted in my distfile repository getting totally deleted. After a
few
emails wit the admins at ibibilo I finally got the answer that I was
looking
for... the truth...
Jerry,
We are no longer rsyncing the distfiles due to space constraints
on our
distributions volume. Gentoo's own instructions for setting up a
mirror
recommend excluding the distfiles directory:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml
If you need these files, you could try the other mirrors listed on
this
page:
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors2.xml
Best,
Matt
I promptly emailed back an offer of two new 1,000 gig drives if they
would put
the gentoo distfiles back up and... no answer....
Guess they really don't care.
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There are quite a few mirrors available to sync from; so one's dropped
support, it's a drop in the bucket. I'll admit, "space concerns" seem
to be a bit odd of a complaint, maybe it was more along the lines of
hosting fees? After all, a distribution server isn't exactly a low-
bandwidth operation.
