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Gentoo Linux begins Codeberg migration to phase out GitHub repos (www.gentoo.org)
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Gentoo now has a presence on Codeberg, and contributions can be submitted for the Gentoo repository mirror at https://codeberg.org/gentoo/gentoo as an alternative to GitHub. Eventually also other git repositories will become available under the Codeberg Gentoo organization. This is part of the gradual mirror migration away from GitHub, as already mentioned in the 2025 end-of-year review. Codeberg is a site based on Forgejo, maintained by a dedicated non-profit organization, and located in Berlin, Germany. Thanks to everyone who has helped make this move possible!

These mirrors are for convenience for contribution and we continue to host our own repositories, just like we did while using GitHub mirrors for ease of contribution too.

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[–] varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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:

  • nixpkgs contains 120k packages
  • Hydra as CI/CD for automated building of packages
  • Storage for 150TB of binaries
  • NW bandwith and maybe redesign into global distribution networks needed

I highly doubt that Codeberg would be a valid alternative platform in terms of storage, CI/CD capabilities or raw computing power.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 linux package 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 6 points 23 hours 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.