Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On 24 July 2013 11:08, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 11:00:40 AM Daniel J Blueman wrote: >> Perhaps we have two issues here: > >> The 20% additional download due to sources [1] would help both issues, >> but perhaps of bigger impact, trusting the country-level mirror fo

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 11:00:40 AM Daniel J Blueman wrote: > Perhaps we have two issues here: > The 20% additional download due to sources [1] would help both issues, > but perhaps of bigger impact, trusting the country-level mirror for > the security updates? ... You aren't. Security up

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Daniel J Blueman
Perhaps we have two issues here: - the download during installs or first index update is 6-7MB extra, which makes a real difference when installing lots of computers - downloads from security.ubuntu.com being slow (eg 1-5KB/s) as it's >500ms away The 20% additional download due to sources [1] wou

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Robie Basak
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 09:31:15PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > Before we run off and expend a lot more effort on this, I'd like to > see something other than handwaving that this is really is a > significant issue. [size comparisions snipped] My concern is latency, not size. How many round tr

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Daniel J Blueman
Or 90/110K per day per computer for Precise. I guess what was getting me is the additional 6-7MB during install or first update: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/universe/source/ 4.8M/5.9M http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/source/ 912K/1.1M On 24 July 2013 09:31, S

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 08:21:40 AM Jordon Bedwell wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > Assuming add-apt-repository was installed by default, it's close. I think > > something like this might be reasonable (imagine some policykit or > > whatever it is called now

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > Assuming add-apt-repository was installed by default, it's close. I think > something like this might be reasonable (imagine some policykit or whatever it > is called now magic here): > > $ sudo apt-get source hello > Reading package lists

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 08:12:16 AM Robie Basak wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 03:02:02AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > So those are a couple of examples of what I think is definitely not what > > we > > want. I'm open to discussion about alternate ways to preserve easy access > > to the s

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Daniel (2013.07.23_08:13:47_+0200) > For the other 99% of users, where practicality is more important than > immediate access to source, we end up wasting ~10% of Canonical and > our mirror's bandwidth on the source updates. Can you back that up with evidence? As I (and a few other people) have

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Robie Basak
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 03:02:02AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > So those are a couple of examples of what I think is definitely not what we > want. I'm open to discussion about alternate ways to preserve easy access to > the source. How about: $ sudo apt-get source hello Reading package lis

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 06:59:43 AM Robie Basak wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 01:51:46AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > I think most developers would believe the current situation is > > appropriate. > > I disagree. > > > By default users have the same access to source and binary packages