Re: Update on fossil repositories

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On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 05:58:57PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've recently updated the hardware on the machine I am using the for
> fossil conversion runs to include a SSD. This has dramatically speed up
> the process and I now expect the fossil repo to be up-to-date with a
> window of 2-3 hours.
> 
> The NetBSD src tree can be found at http://netbsd.sonnenberger.org, a
> copy to speed up the cloning and help save my bandwidth can be found at
> http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/repositories/fossil/src.fossil.
> This file has a size of ~2.4GB.
> 
> The pkgsrc tree can be found at http://pkgsrc.sonnenberger.org, the
> plain repo at
> http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/repositories/fossil/pkgsrc.fossil.
> Note that this is a fresh trace and uses a different project id than the
> earlier copy. This file has a size of ~610MB.

Hi Joerg.  Has this been constructed w/ delta manifests? Lack of delta
manifests on the previous version made for extremely expensive rebuilds.

> The copies on ftp.NetBSD.org are synchronised at midnight UTC, so you
> want to avoid obtaining it after that :) Primary reason for having the
> secondary copy is that my upload bandwidth is quite limited (compared to
> ftp.NetBSD.org) and it avoids the initial rebuild step as well.
> 
> Joerg

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