On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 02:23:00PM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
You seem to be trying to build a complete Fedora-alike infrastructure before you do anything. That to me seems crazy. What do you actually need - a corner on your own box to build rpms. A guest environment to test them and some disk space on an ftp site.
Alan's quite right. I am hosting the MinGW RPMs temporarily on my own site (something like 700-800 MBs worth):
http://www.annexia.org/tmp/mingw/fedora-10/
This is of course no substitute for proper, reliable Fedora hosting and mirroring, which we'll get eventually once the packages are reviewed.
But I spend under $30 / month on this server, and there is no noticable load from the 565 people[1] synching their development machines to it.
Rich.
[1] "people" = distinct IPs making > 1 request for repomd.xml, so probably the real number of users is a bit less than this.