[mirror-admin] [suse-mirror] 11.0 Beta1

[Eberhard Moenkeberg]

Hi,

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Am Freitag, 18. April 2008 schrieb Eberhard Moenkeberg:
> > On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > > Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke at gwdg.de> writes:
> > > > On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > > >> Am Freitag 18 April 2008 schrieb Eberhard Moenkeberg:
> > > >> > On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Stephan Kulow wrote:

> > > >> > > It's on the stage server now, we'll publish it in ~12 hours.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > I get only 4780276 bytes.
> > > >> > Alpha2 had 20436052 bytes.
> > > >>
> > > >> Next Beta hopefully will have deltas again, giving you ~6GB
> > > >> back.
> > > >
> > > > So DVDs are the only chance to upgrade an existing installation.
> > > >
> > > > Because ftp5.gwdg.de no longer has a bandwidth limitation (i.e. can do
> > > > 1 GBit/sec around the clock), I would be ready to present the DVDs
> > > > under /pub/opensuse/distribution/11.0-Beta1/iso/dvd/.
> > > > This would mean all "my" mirrors would need to exclude that directory
> > > > if not wanted.
> > > >
> > > > Shall we do so?
> > >
> > > We're speaking about these three files for Beta1:
> > >
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 mirror stage     4512313344 Apr 17 20:56
> > > openSUSE-11.0-Beta1-DVD-i386.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 mirror stage     4540143616
> > > Apr 17 22:05 openSUSE-11.0-Beta1-DVD-ppc.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 mirror
> > > haldaemon 4595124224 Apr 17 20:45 openSUSE-11.0-Beta1-DVD-x86_64.iso
> >
> > THe sum of space for Beta1 still would be less than for Alpha2 which just
> > has been dropped.
> 
> Yes, but as I said: Beta2 will have deltas again (hopefully), so you would
> have 13G deltas, 13G DVDs, 3G CDs. Your call, I'm just not sure if exceeding
> from 19G to 29G is a good thing for most mirrors.

There is just the need for "full images" now, because there are no deltas.
Beta2 should leave the DVDs again.


Viele Grüße
Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)