[pkg-bioc] Improving on our shared repository?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 20 June 2007 at 14:25, Steffen Moeller wrote:
| Hi,
| 
| On Wednesday 20 June 2007 14:01:52 you wrote:
| > On 20 June 2007 at 11:55, Steffen Moeller wrote:
| > | I presume we are at a stage at which our initial setup no longer scales.
| >
| > "no longer scales" with respect to what? Time? Space? Is the archive too
| > large? Are the interactions too complex? Is there too much manual work?
| 
| You cannot go there easily and say "ls".  The updating takes a few minutes 
| which I though it too long and might be helped by smaller dirs, too, but this 
| is a speculation.

I see. So we are having filesystem issues because we have too many files.

In that case I see no other choice but to split the 'one big dir' approach
into a tree of smaller dirs, maybe at the start 26 of them for every first
letter [ but there are too many with R, no ? ] so maybe we need one dir per
source package, or ...

| We have all, i386 and amd64 packages all in one directory with ppc expected to 
| join from David. To have the archs separated would be the least of an 
| activity I thinking about. But there may be other ideas, too.
| 
| > Your message is a bit too short for me to understand what you are trying to
| > express.
| >
| > | Does anyone of us have sufficient knowledge on how to setup something
| > | more decent while least painless to maintain our built packages? dak?
| >
| > "more decent least painless" with respect to what?
| 
| The number of commands to type should be minimal for uploading and the 
| maintenance. The number of project-specific knowledge should be minimal, too.

Agreed!

Dirk

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