Comment on Gentoo Linux begins Codeberg migration to eventually phase out GitHub repo
varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
I only use Gentoo during the cold periods to keep my feet warm. /s
To be serious: I hope Codeberg is able to keep up with the increased traffic and computing power required with the influx of the new projects.
If NixOS should decide to switch the nixpkgs repo, this would mean serious business:
I highly doubt that Codeberg would be a valid alternative platform in terms of storage, CI/CD capabilities or raw computing power.
That tells me NixOS should be hosting their own infrastructure for holding binaries instead of stuffing them into version control (Isn’t the point of Nix that it’s all 100% reproducible anyway?)
Not that I’m sad that they’re burning 0.001% of Microsoft’s money though.
addie@feddit.uk 5 days ago
Each package has an average of 1.1 Gb of binaries? Maybe delete a few of the old versions, then. But I think the most serious ask there is the network infrastructure - lots of big downloads around the world soon add up.
The Arch
linuxpackage is about 150 Mb; they’ve a few larger ones, but most come in at a few megabytes. (Have just checked my Pacoloco shared cache - average of 773 packages is 5.8 Mb. That serves a network server, a gaming desktop, my personal development laptop and my work development laptop, so it’s a cross section.)varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
Each package is precompiled for different architectures (aarch, x84_64) for different targets (linux, darwin) and each NixOS version has a separate binary cache (unstable, 25.11, 24.11)
That alone means there are at least 12 different versions for one package of a specified version in the binary cache. Now add different versions to that and and you are well below 50MB per package.