Mirror size & completeness of binaries

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 28, 2018, at 07:24, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

>> I know it is nice to see all packages for a port in one place and it is
>> easier to check what has already been built. But hopefully we would have
>> this information on individual port index pages soon.
> 
> Indeed. I don't know about the proper way to do the transition, but
> maybe we could implement something in version 2.5.0? That would also
> greatly simplify adding the libc++ packages and I'm pretty sure that
> we can set something up to have a clear overview about the build
> process until the switch to 2.5.0.
> 
> Users who don't upgrade to 2.5.0 immediately would have to build from
> source for a while, but that's just about the biggest "problem" I can
> think of.

Any reorganization of the packages server's directory structure would probably result in all mirrors having to refetch all packages. That would be a huge waste of bandwidth and time and I think we should avoid imposing that on our mirroring partners.