On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Ben Kevan wrote:-
On Saturday 08 March 2008 02:36:09 am Hans Witvliet wrote:
If you feel you become dependand on the availability of the extra repo's, then there is nothing to stop you of mirroring all or some of them to a private mirror.
Sure there is. Disk space :o)
That shouldn't be too much of a problem. My mirrors of 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3 are 22GiB, 15GiB and 11GiB respectively.
Haha, but yes. I am now considering to rsync a private repo to me. But only if my openSUSE base grows larger then it is. 1 production machine, 1 development machine and 1 production work box.
I have 2 machines running each version, except 10.3 where I now have 5[0]. I mirror the updates repo because it means I only download the updates once rather several times, once each for each of the different machines. The only "problem" I have with this is the time it takes to download the updates from the mirror. Due to the connection between the mirror I use and myself is fairly slow, I don't often manage more than ~80KiB/s. This sometimes means the mirroring can take upto 5 hours to complete, especially when there are kernel updates, or other very large packages that are updated. [0] Only 4 10.3 systems use my local mirror. The last one is the sole PPC system, and I don't bother mirroring that as I think it would be a waste of time, bandwidth and disc space. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: http://www.distributed.net/ OGR-P2 @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~15Mkeys SUSE 10.1 32bit | openSUSE 10.2 32bit | openSUSE 10.3 32bit | openSUSE 11.0a1 SUSE 10.1 64bit | openSUSE 10.2 64bit | openSUSE 10.3 64bit RISC OS 3.6 | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 10.3 PPC | RISC OS 3.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org