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Bug 47332 - It is good idea to create ISO images of distfiles content
Summary: It is good idea to create ISO images of distfiles content
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Mirror Admins
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Reported: 2004-04-09 05:34 UTC by Eugenj Vdovin
Modified: 2005-03-25 11:24 UTC (History)
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Description Eugenj Vdovin 2004-04-09 05:34:23 UTC
I'm home user amd dont have speed network. But I want to use ALL power of Gentoo linux. Therefore, I think that it's  very good idea is create ISO images of DISTFILES directory content. I'm not desire to have a long "beard" of RPG packge  dependencis! The substance of RPG and network orented installtion is discredit Gentoo main idea.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Benjamin Judas (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-04-09 06:44:52 UTC
Currently all distfiles together need approximately 6GB or something. Additionally having 8 iso-images (that's what would be needed to keep these 6GB) would need another 6GB on the mirrors. We simply don't have the capacity to support this. Also, such an iso-image would be outdated before it is even completely created - both the ebuild-tree and the distfiles tree are very fast moving.

You should however be able to create these iso-images yourself, by simply downloading the distfiles/ directory on the mirror-servers and creating the images yourself. Maybe you can do this at the place where you would download the iso-images if we would provide them on the mirrors.

cc'ing infra
Comment 2 Kurt Lieber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-04-09 06:51:46 UTC
Our entire distfiles repository takes up over 25GB of space. We do not have the space on our mirrors to duplicate this data in ISO format.
Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-03-25 11:24:46 UTC
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux".

I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers,
this is the only reasonable way to do this.