Re: parisc-linux.org losing hw hosting after this month

John David Anglin
2013-11-10T17:26:44Z

On 9-Nov-13, at 4:31 PM, Helge Deller wrote:

>> I might be able to *temporarily* (emphasis on that word) host it,
>> provided it=92s not =AB too big =BB, but as I said, specific protoco=
ls such
>> as FTP or GIT are not possible (only HTTP).
>
> HTTP would be absolutely fine. Actually, this is what we currently =20
> use.
>
> I just checked the archive. It's currently - including temporary =20
> boot-disk-images - 19GB.
> I don't think it will grow a lot during the next weeks/months, and =20
> given the
> fact that there aren't so many parisc-users, the load will probably =20
> not
> be high.

I think we should freeze the repository in its current state.

I'm no longer building "all" packages, just "hppa" packages. This is =20
what's needed
for upload to ports. Some "hppa" packages depend on a specific =20
version of an "all"
package, so continuing to upload will break dependencies.

Dave
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John David Anglin dave.anglin@bell.net