Re: Source tarballs?

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20.02.2004, at 22:55, Peter Kadau wrote:
> >     Putting them on the CD is also not a good idea (just in case 
> > someone
> >     brings that up as an idea).  It bloats the CD, the sources become 
> >     obsolete almost instantly, and they present a release-management 
> > bloat
> >     issue as well making it difficult to manage the CD release builds.
> Well, how about that ?
> Put a full repository in tgz-form somewhere. This takes about 95 megs.
> You have a base to get up-to-date easily and are not tempted to 
> download
> that all the time.
> Maybe one could take an iso with a full repo and gzip that - it will
> take about 160 megs approximately since the nrelease-iso takes about
> 60 megs in gziped form.
> And to manage *that* is not difficult.

Managing is not the problem. But I really don't like downloading 
sources with the ISO. Additionally, I was under the impression that 
cvsup didn't really use the sources for the initial sync... but I could 
be wrong there.

cheers
  simon

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