Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:33:29 +0000
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: jeremy@thomersonfamily.com
Cc: Andrew Manison <amanison@anselsystems.com>, Alpine Development
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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] Distfiles mirror
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:46:17 -0600
Jeremy Thomerson <jeremy@thomersonfamily.com> wrote:

> I remember there was a discussion a month or so ago about making
> official archives of the source packages so that builds wouldn't
> later fail when the original upstream disappeared.  What ever came of
> that?  Do we have a solution?

Here is what I'd like to do:

for each git tag, create a distfiles/$tag dir. go through all the
APKBUILDs for that tag and create a hardlink to the source archives
in ../ (or download if missing)

We can then delete all source packages in distfiles that are not
reffered to from any APKBUILD in current git master (and optionally
scan for old -atimes) The hardlinks makes sure we have archive for
previous releases, without duplicating the data on disk.

After that we need to add the hardlinks routine when creating new tags
and a cleanup cron job.

The only thing we need to be careful with is if we create distfiles
mirrors or backups. We just need to be aware of that there are lots of
hardlinks. (or we will waste lots of space on the mirrors)

-nc


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