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* Raphael Marichez <falco@g.o> schrieb: |
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> IMHO this seems a good idea. The portage tree is growing every week, |
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> every month, and it doesn't really suit for the very little systems |
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> (embedded linux) nowadays. Furthermore, with the old 2.0-portage, |
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> the syncing and caching had become really long. |
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> So this project sounds sane. It's rather new, isn't it ? |
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Why can't we just move the patches and other files besides the |
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ebuilds somewhere else ? Why can't they be downloaded on-demand ? |
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If portage was written in some other language than python |
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(ie. java), I would have fixed this even before even writing |
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this mail. |
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It could be so easy: |
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* the whole portage tree is available via some fast download |
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protocol, ie. http (perhaps w/ additional md5 checks). |
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* before passing the files to the patch command, it is checked |
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whether they are there, or better: look beyon a list of |
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prefixes (ie. first the portage tree itself and last the |
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download cache) if they could be found. if not found, fetch'em |
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and use the destination location. |
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* people who don't wanna have all patches sync'ed down, just |
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add another exlude regex and are done with it. |
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cu |
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