[gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] (experimental) rsync access to the Prefix tree

[Fabian Groffen]

Today I set up my Solaris box to finally generate an rsync image of the
Prefix tree (from SVN) with metadata added.  (Last one should speed up
things a lot, and make tools like eix quite happy.)  Thanks to jokey we
now have a server that syncs off of my "crappy internet speed" boxes,
such that you can get a decent speed (without slowing me down) to get
your latest ebuilds.

However, it doesn't come for free :)

If you don't change anything, nothing happens, and all remains the same.
So, what I need is beta testers.  Beta testers in this case will be
people that do not frequently modify ebuilds in the tree.  Switching to
rsync means that the portage tree in use no longer is a subversion
controlled tree where local changes are retained.  Instead, all local
changes are wiped out each and every time you run emerge --sync.

If you are interested helping out by trying if rsync works for your
case, please do the following.

% cd ${EPREFIX}/usr
% mv portage portage-svn
% rsync -av rsync://rsync.prefix.freens.org/gentoo-portage-prefix/ portage
% emerge --sync

the emerge --sync should be fast (almost) no differences, but you should
see a stage at the end saying something alike that the metadata cache is
updated.

If you try, please report back in any case (whether or not it fails or works)


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Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level
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