On 8/17/06, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <raster@rasterman.com> wrote:
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> personally i would have no problem in a server-side auto-build of
tarballs.
> what do people think? should we perhaps have the anoncvs server do daily
(or
> maybe several times per day) builds of packages? not rpm or deb but "make
> dist"; ie something like the following run maybe every 4 or 8 hours? once
a day?
I think that while this option might be useful for load, it takes a lot more
bandwidth, and is bad for users, as they would have to download hundreds of
megabytes each time a 1 Kb patch is in.
I vote for the cvs mirrors as at least it's easier on the user's AND the
server's bandwidth.