On Monday 18 September 2017 at 14:37:31, Arnt Karlsen wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:56:53 +0100, KatolaZ wrote in message
>
> > There is no need at all to convert an existing Debian repo to be
> > used as a back-end of a Devuan repo. Only a few simple http rewrites.
>
> ..aye, that's my current understanding. :o)
>
> ..the Debian mirror sizes nowadays are:
> https://www.debian.org/mirror/size
>
> ..what size is http://packages.devuan.org/devuan/ now?

Well, given that:

On Monday 18 September 2017 at 12:59:20, KatolaZ wrote:

> 95% of the packages in Devuan Jessie are the same as in Debian
> Jessie. So in most cases you will be using packages from Debian
> Jessie, even if you get those through an automatic redirect from the
> Devuan repo.

a first approximation would be that the Devuan repository is 5% of the size of
the Debian ones.


Antony.

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