On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:51:49PM +0200, Juergen A. Erhard wrote:
There's this current thread on the size of Debian's ftp archive
(started with someone noting the size of `gmt-coast-full', ~47M)
I think this is a moot discussion... just look at disk prize these
days. Here in Germany, a 20M
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:00:14PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:43:57PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
Why not allow Source only packages ?
That will win nothing. You can't use apt-get on them, have to rebuilt
and have them twice locally.
$ apt-get source -b
Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1) The way the Debian archive works requires the data to be stored
twice (source package and .deb).
Why not allow Source only packages ?
Or have a small .deb which installs the data and the data as a
tar.gz/tar.bz2 file which is symlinked
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:37:06PM +0200, Petr Cech wrote:
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 07:10:09PM + , Zygo Blaxell wrote:
On 18 Oct 1999 18:16:58 -0700, Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
3) Where do we stop ? As someone says, there's nothing preventing
me from uploading
Hi,
NO!! RFCs are *very* important when writing software. They are the
standards upon which a large amount of free software is based and are
absolutely crucial to developers. Why should they have to hunt the
web for such stuff?
I think it's possible for _everyone_ to mirror (for example)
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 14:06:50 +1000, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au
wrote:
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:00:14PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:43:57PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
Why not allow Source only packages ?
That will win nothing. You can't use
Hi,
NO!! RFCs are *very* important when writing software. They are the
standards upon which a large amount of free software is based and are
absolutely crucial to developers. Why should they have to hunt the
web for such stuff?
I think it's possible for _everyone_ to mirror (for
On 19-Oct-99 Torsten Landschoff wrote:
That will win nothing. You can't use apt-get on them, have to rebuilt
and have them twice locally.
Yes, but the problem is the mirrors space, not the space on users disks.
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Christian Surchi, [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.firenze.linux.it/~csurchi
Torsten Landschoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:43:57PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
Why not allow Source only packages ?
That will win nothing. You can't use apt-get on them, have to rebuilt
and have them twice locally.
You could set the arch flag in the
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