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On Donnerstag 03 November 2011 11:59:55 Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Andreas K Huettel wrote: |
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> > On Donnerstag 03 November 2011 10:16:53 Michael Haubenwallner wrote: |
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> >> As we do have the "$delay before breaking old" period, usually with |
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> >> $delay="1 year": Should we also apply this $delay to the output of |
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> >> above command? |
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> > Makes all perfect sense... however I suggest to agree on a general |
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> > scheme and go ahead manually first if implementation and/or |
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> > discussion of its details or planned features is lingering... |
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> How about this: |
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> - Possible split points are only at the end of years. |
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> - Start at the end of the file and go backwards. |
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> - Split it whenever the piece after the split point is larger than $size. |
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> - Stop if the next split point is less than $delay ago. |
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> Reasonable values are 50 or 100 KiB for $size and 1 year for $delay, |
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> IMHO. |
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Sounds good. So, we have a spec... and the portage team has two months to get |
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it into "emerge --changelog". :) |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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http://www.akhuettel.de/ |