Large data packages

orion at cora.nwra.com orion at cora.nwra.com
Fri Jan 18 03:23:39 UTC 2008


>
> On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 10:47 -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
>> While I'm not against including genome data, this is a very specialized
>> area... perhaps a separate YUM repo for such stuff? Copies of this will
>> have to be carried by each and every mirror.
>
> It appears it is 29M. Which is quite a bit smaller than a number of
> other things:
>
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/7/i386/?C=S;O=D

Yeah, until InstantMirror came around (++!) I spend a lot of time making
sure my local mirror didn't download game stuff.  If we start talking
separate repos, that would be the first candidate.  Not a big deal for me
though as InstantMirror pretty much satisfies my needs.

- Orion




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