Hi, we waste extreme amounts of space on our download server (and on the mirrors) by the way we publish source RPMs. The source package is published in every repository, so it can be duplicated considerably. For instance, an Apache httpd source package is 5.3 MB, but altogether they occupy more than the ten-fold: # du -sch repositories/Apache/openSUSE_11.1/src/apache2-2.2.11-10.1.src.rpm 5.3M repositories/Apache/openSUSE_11.1/src/apache2-2.2.11-10.1.src.rpm 5.3M total # du -sch repositories/Apache/*/src/apache2-*.src.rpm 5.3M repositories/Apache/CentOS_5/src/apache2-2.2.11-10.1.src.rpm 5.3M repositories/Apache/Fedora_10/src/apache2-2.2.11-10.1.src.rpm 5.3M repositories/Apache/Fedora_9/src/apache2-2.2.11-10.1.src.rpm 5.2M repositories/Apache/Mandriva_2008/src/apache2-2.2.11-10.1.src.rpm 5.3M repositories/Apache/openSUSE_10.3/src/apache2-2.2.11-10.1.src.rpm 5.2M repositories/Apache/openSUSE_11.0/src/apache2-2.2.11-10.1.src.rpm 5.3M repositories/Apache/openSUSE_11.1/src/apache2-2.2.11-10.1.src.rpm 5.3M repositories/Apache/openSUSE_Factory/src/apache2-2.2.11-10.2.src.rpm 5.3M repositories/Apache/RHEL_5/src/apache2-2.2.11-10.1.src.rpm 5.3M repositories/Apache/SLE_10_server_database_postgresql/src/apache2-2.2.11-10.1.src.rpm 5.3M repositories/Apache/SLE_10/src/apache2-2.2.11-10.1.src.rpm 5.3M repositories/Apache/SLE_11/src/apache2-2.2.11-10.1.src.rpm 5.3M repositories/Apache/SLES_9/src/apache2-2.2.11-10.1.src.rpm 68M total (This probably being a rather harmless example, but illustrative.) To set this in perspective, I estimate that 25-50% of space might be wasted. Let's look at some numbers: 98M repositories/Apache/*/src 342M repositories/Apache 9M repositories/home:/poeml/*/src 18M repositories/home:/poeml 22G repositories/games/*/src 50G repositories/games Wow, it's even worse than I thought... What can we do about this? From my understanding, each of the source rpms could be used to achieve the same build result. (Or isn't that the case?) The source RPMs should be published once only, if at all. What do you think? Peter -- "WARNING: This bug is visible to non-employees. Please be respectful!" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development