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From:	Rafael Martins <rafael@×××××××××××××××××.br>
To:	gentoo-soc@l.g.o
Cc:	Denis Dupeyron <calchan@g.o>, robbat2@g.o
Subject:	[gentoo-soc] Re: Distfile patching support - Weekly report #7
Date:	Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:34:56
Message-Id:	`CAHgY3qcg6r6HGR+8WQ_7mPqzrdvD8-K3Y42SaiZeSmTZQSk+4w@mail.gmail.com`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-soc] Distfile patching support - Weekly report #7 by Rafael Martins

1	On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Rafael Martins
2	<rafael@×××××××××××××××××.br> wrote:
3	> Hi all,
4	>
5	> Quick summary: Improve the performance of the Gentoo Linux mirrors by
6	> reducing the overall bandwidth load, allowing people to fetch binary
7	> patches from the mirrors, instead of the full source tarballs, when
8	> updating some package. This project is partially based on GLEP 25.
9	>
10	> The project is still a bit ahead of schedule.
11	>
12	> == Progress ==
13	>
14	> This week I fixes some issues with my scripts and worked on the
15	> Portage patch, to use binary deltas,
16	>
17	> == Next steps ==
18	>
19	> More work on the Portage patches. Run more tests in vulture.
20	>
21
22	Ops, this is the report #8.
23
24	Sorry.
25
26	--
27	Rafael Goncalves Martins
28	http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/