From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25193 invoked by alias); 10 Nov 2016 22:16:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 25093 invoked by uid 89); 10 Nov 2016 22:16:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=savings, castro, silly, Quick X-HELO: mail-lf0-f43.google.com Received: from mail-lf0-f43.google.com (HELO mail-lf0-f43.google.com) (209.85.215.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 22:16:56 +0000 Received: by mail-lf0-f43.google.com with SMTP id o141so128921201lff.1 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 14:16:56 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to; bh=M+DcOmnpbC+t/MppAd/mBSQKXksBiY84L/piNzR2S+M=; b=hfQPrVsPUpbI9kTyyxh68gi+VZzfOg+vuuAg4vA4X/qYLSq6EigagVVR20hbY30+5g zPYEncAhLSOe0xlOLUY+VtXy6/EjiULsIVdxrzP/RRIkMDyUh261fWFfjoXew/p+xiY9 9VrUZE/4Byujh3jtZJU3XdYz5G9La2Yx+qpK0X+wRlpGegmWwYerJmD6R5rkQPbcjuwx OcC8VgmScD/5wlLWxFsqUHCzJxOvFBIRpA3QuUGwoHrYnJH4GdcrEmAd8ZO+HRgnsoNx 3VxU6/xngzreWzQc9KFF+BGkCeStXOO0kT9DYJPu7LGQwX+cME4LdIIgCKW365N0o+dh 8pDA== X-Gm-Message-State: ABUngvc6eNsJ3oZqNoKvhiufFfRI3B59h3lIk5yRjhRcmM/tPTVWj3jZtwIuOscXQQ6qf6iZJzuIr89DuRwmQw== X-Received: by 10.25.211.3 with SMTP id k3mr4449238lfg.133.1478816214258; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 14:16:54 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.114.80.170 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 14:16:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <000801d23b23$8912a3c0$9b37eb40$@bonhard.uklinux.net> <166a2465-cffb-3b15-30be-d696be8ead8e@SystematicSw.ab.ca> From: Erik Soderquist Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 00:39:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Complaining after fair notice of dropping XP support. Was: Not very nice at all. To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-11/txt/msg00105.txt.bz2 On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Peter A. Castro wrote: > And for those who think keeping a private mirror is trivial, let me give you > some stats. A full snapshot of Cygwin, 32-bit + 64-bit (+noarch) + source > packages (Current and Previous) is about 137Gb. Don't believe me? Your > setup.ini has a size (and a hash) for every package. Add them up yourself. > Now consider that I have about 4000 snapshots (and counting!) of Cygwin. > Oh! Quick quiz: > What's 137Gb * 4000? > Answer: 535Tb. > Now, do you really think I have that amount of storage? Of course not. The > Time Machine isn't organized like that (don't be silly). It's currently > about 500Gb (which is quite a savings, if you think about it :-) I would dearly love to know more about how you did this specific piece... -- Erik -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple