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All, |
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This is a headsup mostly for developers. The (good) news for users is |
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that all packages from regular Gentoo are now also available for Prefix |
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albeit being masked by missing keywords. |
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Because of a growing whitelist.txt, and the tiresome process of adding |
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to whitelist.txt what is necessary, then waiting around an hour to sync |
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and find the next missing package, I decided to include all packages |
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from gx86 in the Prefix rsync tree. |
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Of course "each advantage has its disadvantage", to quote Cruyff. In |
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the attached figure, the most prominent disadvantage is made visual: |
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generation time has increased from ~12 to ~17 minutes. For the 30 |
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minutes rotation this obviously makes no difference. |
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Notice the bump of time necessary by egencache around 20:00, that is the |
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time Zac committed "cache-formats = md5-dict pms" to |
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metadata/layout.conf. In the Prefix tree, there now is a |
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metadata/md5-cache directory that should ultimately fix the bug we |
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observed in the past [1], but gentoo-x86 people have been affected by |
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now too [2]. That sort of is a proof that I was correctly not |
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convinced in comment #17 of said Prefix bug [1]. |
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In the near future, we (Prefix) might jump ahead and stop distributing |
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the old metadata/cache, but for now we have both, like gx86. |
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Because the Prefix overlay now "overshadows" the gx86 tree, I've removed |
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whitelist.txt, since it's obviously no longer used. Nothing is |
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necessary any more to "include" something in Prefix, as everything there |
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is, should be there now. |
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[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388345 |
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[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409445 |
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Fabian Groffen |
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