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From: Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: upstream/watch in metadata.xml
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:00:59
Message-Id: CAHR064h6rwTSra444vk77d-hJx6UsdKrUo0=DmZ84W7v8sMKbw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: upstream/watch in metadata.xml by Corentin Chary
1 On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Corentin Chary
2 <corentin.chary@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> wrote:
4 >> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:33:11AM +0100, Corentin Chary wrote:
5 >>> Currently, if you run euscan on this package, it doesn't work at all:
6 >>> http://euscan.iksaif.net/package/media-plugins/vdr-softdevice/
7 >>> 1/ it's hosted on gentoo mirrors, and scanning them takes too long
8 >>> because all files are in the same directory
9 >> I've been wondering if it would help to have a pregenerated index go out
10 >> to the mirrors from our master box, would that be useful for you?
11 >
12 > Would be better, but the index would still be pretty big (and
13 > currently euscan doesn't cache anything, maybe it should).
14 >
15
16 Note that even with a HTTP cache, scanning it would take a lot of CPU
17 if it is too big :/.
18
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20 Corentin Chary
21 http://xf.iksaif.net