[pacman-dev] [abs] Proto files and Makeworld

Travis Willard travis at archlinux.org
Mon Jan 7 13:23:29 EST 2008


On Jan 7, 2008 12:39 PM, eliott <eliott at cactuswax.net> wrote:

> On 1/7/08, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 6, 2008 4:53 PM, eliott <eliott at cactuswax.net> wrote:
> > > Keep in mind that with the way gerolde is setup, /home has lots of
> > > space, while some of the other mount points do not. :/
> > >
> > > Do a df -h to see what i mean.
> >
> > Not to get bogged down in semantics and all that, but /srv/ is nice
> > for this stuff, and the "correct" place according to the FHS.
> >
> > Maybe we could do a /srv/abs -> /home/abs link due to size constraints?
>
> I would rather not have symlinks laying around just to underhandedly
> maintain the FHS spec on our server.
> If the size of a full abs checkout isn't too large, we can just slap
> it under /srv/abs and keep an eye on it.
>
> Maybe you could do a test on it travis, before we roll out an
> implementation, to see how much space is used for a full checkout of
> all the repos?
>

Good plan - I'll do that along with testing of the rsync abs - when I get to
it.  Hopefully this week sometime.
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