Apt at fedora.us

[Warren Togami]

Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 13:47 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:31:01 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I had asked Warren Togami to add them on PM and he answered:
>>>"There is little good reason to do so.  Trying to limit the size of that
>>>repository because many mirror administrators see it as redundant."
>>>
>>>This is not true, SRPMS apt-repositories are not redundant. Not having
>>>them implies loss of functionality to apt.
>>
>>Well, then I think the Apt community may need to prove him wrong
>>and do some lobbying.
> 
> 
> FWIW, I would like to see the complete apt'table (pre-)Extras SRPMS
> repos available at fedora.us and its mirrors.  The reasons have been
> outlined in this thread.

I have to admit that I don't understand if there is any purpose in this. 
     "apt-get source" is only a convenience but otherwise is not very 
useful.  "apt-get build-dep" does not need SRPMS at all except the local 
SRPM, which you already have locally because you want to build it.  Is 
there some aspect of this that I am failing to see?  I fail to see the 
"need" in this.

 From the perspective of mirror administrators it is somewhat painful to 
host redundant RPMS.  I personally don't have the disk space to do this 
forever with all distributions.

I suppose it is tolerable to do only SRPMS.extras of the latest stable 
distribution.  When FC4 happens, I will wipe the 3 SRPMS.extras.  Is 
this acceptable?  I will however not add the base and updates SRPMS.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com