Mirror size & completeness of binaries

[Mojca Miklavec]

Hi,

I don't know about the best way to do it, but I would like to suggest to
provide macports mirorring in two different sizes: a small one and a
complete one.

While I'm a heavy supporter of providing support for legacy systems, I see
no reason to mirror files for them on all of our mirrors and cause troubles
to them. I would suggest to mirror by default just the latest version of
any given source and binary and only support the latest three OSes there.
Then we could have additional files to support older systems on a smaller
set of mirrors, just on those where it would not cause any additional
troubles to them. Since the number of users of legacy systems is much
smaller, this should not have a heavy impact on bandwidth to that smaller
number of mirrors either.

I'm not saying this should be implemented immediately, but I would
certainly start thinking about that before we add additional four mirrors
(three legacy ones and 10.14).

Mojca
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