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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] (experimental) rsync access to the Prefix tree
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 10:27:44
Message-Id: 20080513102741.GA15987@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] (experimental) rsync access to the Prefix tree by Michael Haubenwallner
1 On 13-05-2008 12:09:46 +0200, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
2 >
3 > On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 16:58 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
4 > > One thing I forgot...
5 > >
6 > > On 12-05-2008 16:15:02 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
7 > > > % cd ${EPREFIX}/usr
8 > > > % mv portage portage-svn
9 >
10 > Haven't tried myself, but it might work keeping the svn-tree in place
11 > (create a backup (tarball) instead of moving away) and let rsync just
12 > drop the svn-bits ?
13 > This should avoid fetching the whole tree again, so Qiangning could
14 > still be able to switch to rsync, as it shouln't need hours then -
15 > although he would need to sync at regular intervals.
16
17 Basically, my instructions here were to test rsync from a clean slate
18 (it's 80 megs or so). Once it appears to work, the best thing to do
19 when you want to switch is to download the bootstrap image and update
20 it, IMHO.
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24 Fabian Groffen
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