Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: "Philippe Lafoucrière" <lafou@×××××××.fr>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage doc & cache
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 09:42:49
Message-Id: 40CC2222.2040304@wanadoo.fr
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage doc & cache by Joseph Booker
1 > For someone like me using mysql-based cache rather then portage's default
2 > cache, how will that figure?
3
4 I have a laptop with 256 MB RAM. I can't consider installing a full
5 database system to handle package managment. Maybe SQLlite, but not mysql :(
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8 >>There are too many files to consider now in portage. At start, portage
9 >>had just a few hundred of files, and rsync was doing its job quite well.
10 >>Now portage has more than 80 000 files. Rsync has to consider all of
11 >>them, and it's *REALLY* too long + painfull (my laptop is almost
12 >>unusable during rsyncing). Sound like a "select * from table" on a test
13 >>server with 15 test clients => will break in production environnement
14 >>with thousands of clients.
15 >
16 >
17 > I have a 900mhz celeron (copermine), and maybe its the love-sources and
18 > ~x86 packages, but ive still been able to do crazy things like talk on
19 > irc, have firefox open, update some programs, all while 'emerge sync'-ing
20 > without too much preformance lost* (now if i forget to turn off
21 > seti@××××××××.then my computer will simply lockup untill i can get to a
22 > tty). You might want to check out if theres something with your laptop, if
23 > these extremly long times happen with other equpiment.
24 >
25 > * I should mention i emerge sync every one or two days.
26
27 Rsync doesn't work with the corporate proxy + firewall. I have to use
28 emerge-webrsync (ev. 2 or 3 days).
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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage doc & cache Nicholas Jones <carpaski@××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage doc & cache Hasan Khalil <gongloo@×××××××××××××××××××××.com>