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[Russell Oliver <roliver8143@xxxxxxxxx>]

To cut down the download size, can there be a nightly package built
that doesn't contain the library, module and 3d files? just enough to
overwrite the program files.


Regards
Russell Oliver



On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 at 06:00, Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> AFAI CERN has private cluster using Ceph that has an S3 api but its not AWS. It's also not as simple as creating a torrent because there still needs to be a primary seed server.
>
> On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 6:23 PM Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I think torrents are the best solution.
>> Even when servers function normally on each release there is a stampede to download new binary and things slow down to a crawl. I don't know if moving to CERN servers (AWS servers?) will help but torrents certainly would.
>>
>> It's as simple as creating a torrent with openbittorrent.com tracker or even just a magnet link relying on DHT.
>> I can help script this if needed.
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 10:32 AM Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 01:22:39PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>> > Thanks.  If we are having issues with the CERN download speeds (although
>>> > it is not entirely evident that is the issue) it would be good to have
>>> > alternate mirrors for users to try if they are having issues with the
>>> > main download server.
>>>
>>> Why not adding torrent seeds like done for the Ubuntu iso images or
>>> Libreoffice binary files? We must have a torrent tracker somewhere and
>>> that should offload servers and should solve the peak download problems
>>> if any...
>>>
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