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Alec Warner wrote: |
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> lnxg33k wrote: |
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>> Thanks Alec Warner for the great explanation. It still seems like by not |
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>> having portions of the tree by using EXCLUDEFORM and deleting the local |
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>> dirs that you'd save some time in the --metadata part of sync as less |
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>> ebuilds are available to be checked. Is this simply a wrong misconception? |
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> The portion that "updates metadata cache" has nothing to do with what |
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> ebuilds are in the tree. It simply takes the server-side caches ( |
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> pregenerated ) and sync them into your local cache. You could RSYNC |
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> exclude the whole tree and this will still happen for every package, |
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> since the metadata is generated on the server ( and the server has the |
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> whole tree ). |
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> Now if you were to rsync exclude metadata/ you would reduce the |
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> - --metadata portion...because it wouldn't happen ;) |
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Ah, ok. Hearing it again makes it sound more reasonable. I'll have to watch my |
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rsync output a bit more closely. Thanks again for the explanation. |
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