Re: More precise tag following

["Chris Lee" <clee@kde.org>]

On 1/29/07, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Well, it doesn't really help Chris. All the data will end up starting from
> > him anyway.
>
> Sure, but I was under the impression this wasn't the problem.  Given
> what Chris said:
>
> |I don't have access to any servers that I could drop a 3GB packfile
> |onto and expect them to serve it. [...] If anybody wants to hook me up
> |with a hosting provider or a machine that just the git devs can access,
> |I'd be willing to tie up my upstream bandwidth for a few days so you
> |all can have access to it.
>
> And then David said:
>
> |if nobody else steps forward I can arrange something like this on my
> |home server (only 768K updtream bandwidth, but it's better then
> |nothing)
>
> So it looks like the server was the main issue here.
>
> > Once it's uploaded anywhere, we've got people willing to mirror it
> > infinitely ..
>
> Has this been set up with Chris already?

I'm going to burn a DVD with the repo on it later today and mail it to
hpa since he's only like two towns over.

So, hopefully, it'll be up somewhere useful by the end of the week :)