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On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:56:43AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 08:46, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > In the meantime however please note that it is possible to exclude |
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> > certain categories from the rsync (like games). That would be able to |
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> > safe some space/time. |
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> Why does everyone always say "like games" anyway? Games are essential, |
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> man. KDE and Gnome are cruft... ;p |
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> Honestly, if you're worried about the portage tree, stop updating it so |
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> much. There's really no need to be vigilant in portage updates. This |
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> will become even more true in the future with the security only |
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> updates. One other feature I would like to see is the ability to rsync |
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> only certain parts of the tree, similar to how cvs works. I should be |
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> able to be in my $PORTDIR/games-fps and do an "emerge dirsync" (or |
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> whatever) and have it sync just that directory. I think it would save |
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> the load on the servers if people are looking for specific updates to |
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> specific packages. |
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That sounds really scary to me. Won't this break stuff? Like things |
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depending on ebuilds which you haven't synced as they are in a different |
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category? |
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