On Jan 3, 2008 4:17 PM, eliott <eliott@cactuswax.net> wrote:
With a potential move of abs from cvsup to rsync, would it make sense to include a 'seeded' abs tree as part of the abs package (a point in time snapshot of the abs tree) so that people can get off to a bit of a start, as well as spread 'some' of the initial bandwidth to the mirrors?
Something like the abs package including a snapshot in /usr/share/abs/base-tree.tar.gz or something equally brain dead.
I think this makes pretty good sense, thinking about it. Because abs will be living in core/devel, not everyone will need it, so space concerns are a bit more minimal. However, what repositories do you include? I believe our initial prototype was still able to only sync certain trees if one so desired. For instance, many people have no use for the unstable and/or testing abs trees. I would say that core and extra are pretty much standard fare and could be included. /me rethinks...the disadvantage is that if we even bump the pkgrel of abs, users would have to download this tar.gz of what might already be an outdated abs tree. Hmm. -Dan