KDE4 windows binary distribution
Ralf Habacker
ralf.habacker at freenet.de
Tue Jan 15 23:51:58 CET 2008
Hi,
today I have gotten access to the staging server of the kde4 mirror
system which means we can release windows package onto the kde4 mirrors
in the near future. Additional we have access to the sourceforge high
bandwith mirror system for the same purpose.
There is a really need to add additional mirrors because the servers we
are currently using are partial overloaded.
To give you some impressions:
In Dezember 2007 there were files downloaded with a complete size of
about 1 TB, for example kdebase-mingw-3.95-1-bin.zip was downloaded
about 4000 times.
The Top 30 of 101 Total Countries from this month are listed below
Top 30 of 101 Total Countries
# Hits Files Volume Country
1 38283 17.18% 33162 19.63% 54.33 GB 6.52% United States
2 30476 13.68% 29305 17.34% 431.41 GB 51.76% Russian Federation
3 28493 12.79% 24224 14.34% 38.88 GB 4.66% Germany
4 12620 5.66% 12234 7.24% 110.95 GB 13.31% China
5 10483 4.70% 9133 5.41% 16.50 GB 1.98% Great Britain (UK)
6 9945 4.46% 8960 5.30% 21.35 GB 2.56% France
7 7842 3.52% 7061 4.18% 15.46 GB 1.85% Poland
8 6988 3.14% 6066 3.59% 12.99 GB 1.56% Italy
9 5570 2.50% 5104 3.02% 10.02 GB 1.20% Netherlands
10 5290 2.37% 4891 2.89% 9.06 GB 1.09% Canada
11 4542 2.04% 4083 2.42% 6.60 GB 0.79% Brazil
12 3683 1.65% 3276 1.94% 5.19 GB 0.62% Spain
13 3625 1.63% 3412 2.02% 7.28 GB 0.87% Czech Republic
14 3547 1.59% 3162 1.87% 6.64 GB 0.80% Ukraine
15 3292 1.48% 3043 1.80% 4.44 GB 0.53% Japan
16 3134 1.41% 2610 1.54% 2.26 GB 0.27% Australia
17 2696 1.21% 2348 1.39% 5.04 GB 0.60% Hungary
18 2505 1.12% 2294 1.36% 7.18 GB 0.86% Romania
19 2473 1.11% 2130 1.26% 4.04 GB 0.49% Austria
20 2417 1.08% 2239 1.33% 2.44 GB 0.29% Norway
21 2390 1.07% 2167 1.28% 4.78 GB 0.57% Portugal
22 2276 1.02% 2121 1.26% 5.89 GB 0.71% Sweden
23 2035 0.91% 1734 1.03% 4.97 GB 0.60% Switzerland
24 2005 0.90% 1631 0.97% 3.09 GB 0.37% Bulgaria
25 1863 0.84% 1634 0.97% 4.63 GB 0.55% India
26 1681 0.75% 1512 0.89% 2.81 GB 0.34% Belgium
27 1616 0.73% 1406 0.83% 3.37 GB 0.40% Latvia
28 1386 0.62% 1242 0.74% 2.44 GB 0.29% Slovak Republic
29 1227 0.55% 1146 0.68% 1.67 GB 0.20% Korea (South)
30 1159 0.52% 998 0.59% 1.95 GB 0.23% Israel
In the half januar 2008 the installer is downloaded about *10.000 *times
and about *268029 *files has been downloaded.
To be able to use the kde mirror system there are currently some open
thinks:
1. Mostly kde mirrors use the ftp protocol which isn't supported by the
installer yet - this has to be extended
2. sourceforge mirrors do not support sub directories, which requires to
extend the installer a bit -> I'm working on this, it will be ready in
the 0.8.5 release of the installer
2. kde mirror directory layout:
The currently used mirrors contains several directories with kde
unstable releases and directories for supplementary libraries and tools.
There are only the latest version of the supplementary libraries
available which may work for win32libs but probably will give problems
for packages in the kdesupport category because of possible api changes.
Given the fact that installer version 0.8.5 will support flat directory
structures I'm planing to put all required files (including the
installer config file) for a given release on the kde mirrors into one
subdirectory eg:
/pub/kde/unstable/3.97/windows
-all files for 3.97 release
/pub/kde/unstable/4.1/windows
- all files for 4.1 release
You can see an example of such structure in
http://download.cegit.de/kde-windows/mirror-example/
Any comments ?
Ralf
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