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On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 10:22:35 -0500 |
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William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> All, |
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> Mostly because of the recent "trustless infrastructure" thread, I am |
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> wondering why we are still distributing the portage tree primarily |
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> via rsync instead of git? |
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> Can someone educate me on that, and is it worth considering moving |
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> away from rsync distribution? |
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> Thanks, |
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> William |
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because: |
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1) it is still the most bandwidth economical means of distributing the |
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tree |
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2) we have a large infrastructure of rsync mirrors, which we do not for |
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git. |
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3) see #1 |
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Brian Dolbec <dolsen> |
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