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From: Harley Peters <harley@×××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with the current bzr eclass.
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:02:39
Message-Id: 20090709140234.2994310a@parity.biterror.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with the current bzr eclass. by Christian Faulhammer
1 On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:55:54 +0200
2 Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Hi,
5 >
6 > Harley Peters <harley@×××××××××××××.net>:
7 > > Since I did a full checkout with the EBZR_FETCH_CMD="bzr checkout"
8 > > it now deletes the entire previous checked out branch (to save disk
9 > > space ?) and proceeds to fetch the entire source again.
10 > > Why would I ever want to do that ? The whole point of bzr is to save
11 > > bandwidth not disk space. Is there a way arouund this ?
12 >
13 > You can add a modified bzr.eclass to a local overlay which will
14 > shadow the one from the Portage tree. This idea was born because
15 > initial checkouts are/were incredibly slow, so give first time users
16 > a better first experience and not let them wait 20 minutes (what
17 > happened with the Emacs repository).
18 >
19 > V-Li
20 >
21
22 Ok that's what I am doing. Was just wondering if there was something
23 simple I over looked.

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[gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with the current bzr eclass. Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o>