Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Shared gNewSense/Trisquel repo (WAS: Re: GNU C-Graph: Over 100, 000 Discover That Visualizing Convolution is Easy)

[Irving Rivas]

I can provide a 5 bucker from https://www.digitalocean.com/ ; would that be enough?

It's 20 GB storage, 512MB RAM and 1TB monthly transfer.

I'd like to (also) host some personal stuff on the server (a working xampp stack with two or three sites), nothing space nor traffic intensive, but I'm not the best sysadmin ever, so... I'd need someone to administrate and help me move the sites from where I have them now (another VPS) to this one.

Let me know,

iajrz.

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Karl Goetz <address@hidden> wrote:

Hugh Mayfield <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2013, Karl Goetz wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:23:03 +1000
> > From: Karl Goetz <address@hidden>
> > To: Hugh Mayfield <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Tobias Platen <address@hidden>,
> address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: [Gnewsense-dev] GNU C-Graph: Over 100,
> >     000 Discover That Visualizing Convolution is Easy
> >
> > Hugh Mayfield <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 30 Sep 2013, Karl Goetz wrote:
> >>
> >>> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 08:23:35 +1000
> >>> From: Karl Goetz <address@hidden>

> > > > [Think i accidentally cut out whoever said this next bit, sorry]
> >>>> I think it is worth to set up a common repository for both Trisquel an
> >>>> Gnewsense that contains the latest stable releases of GNU software.
> >>>
> >>> Maintaining a repository like that is a lot of work. It would
> >> definitely be benefitial to all but time to maintain it will be the
> >> proble.
> >>
> >> Is this something I could do?
> >
> > Quite possibly, if you can provide the following:
> > * enough system resources to build packages
>
> Possibly.  I've got a brace of multi-GHz machines.  I don't know if
> that's enough?

A single system at 2GHz+ would be a good minimum, if you have multiple GB of ram (4+) so much the better. As with all things you can get away with less and builds will be slower - more will speed things up.

> > * reasonable network location for users to download from
>
> Definitely can't provide this.  Cannot afford it.

It would be a requirement for such a repository to be properly useful if the packages are to be binaries ready to install. If you plan to only provide source packages you might be able to get away with just packaging metadata and in that instance you would have a much smaller data requirement.

At the moment for this plan it seems data transfer is your stumbling block but if you were to start a project like this you might be able to team up with someone else who can provide it.

I can't speak for gNewSense/sam but I suspect if you needed somewhere to test build some packages we could find you some room (on an adhoc basis).

> > * time to build and test the packages on the supported releases of
> the supported distros
> > * time to patch packages and update to newer versions.
> > * time to do any other supporting bits of work (eg keepingthe build
> environments up to date)
>
> Time is not a problem.

In that case you can take your time and learn how to start this project at your own pace. To start with you could even try and package c-graph (if you know fortran or are interested in learning it so much the better). Since upstream is asking for it to be included in gNewSense I'm sure he will be happy to help with questions regarding how the application works and any patches/changes you might have questions about. Packaging questions can be asked on IRC or various mailing lists (though which lists will depend on who and what you are working with :))

thanks,
kk


Figured this deserves a new subject line.

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