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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> posted 1153321851.6243.20.camel@onyx, |
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excerpted below, on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:10:51 -0400: |
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> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 17:39 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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>> On Tuesday 18 July 2006 14:17, Ned Ludd wrote: |
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>> > There is no consistency for end users when stuff keeps getting shuffled |
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>> > around. |
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>> i dont see why end users should care ... devs should update the |
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>> profile/updates/ files and portage should do the rest |
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> Every single year quarter after quarter the more updates |
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> that happen the slower portage is becoming. |
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> Care to solve that? |
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I don't know all of what portage devs did to fixpackages, but with the |
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2.1.1-pre series now in ~arch anyway (and I /thought/ in 2.1.0, but I may |
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have been mistaken), it's /so/ much faster, I finally added |
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FEATURES=fixpackages to make.conf -- along with the FEATURES=buildpkg I've |
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had there for some time! |
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Where back with 2.0.5x, it would take forever, starting with moves even |
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before I had a Gentoo installed (I never did figure out why it couldn't |
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start from the date of the last one and only do any new fixes, or at |
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/least/ ignore ones from before my first Gentoo install), now it seems to |
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skip over them all at once and only slow down when it gets to new |
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packages. IOW, it seems like they've implemented the timestamp thing and |
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only update things since then, like I would have thought reasonable to do |
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all along. |
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To put it another way, with new portage, fixpackages doesn't seem to be an |
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issue at all! My first emerge --pretend --update --deep --newuse world |
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(before it's all memory cached) seems to take longer than fixpackages |
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does, now. Either they did something very right, or they did something |
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very wrong and it's skipping everything it should be doing, therefore |
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explaining the dramatic speed improvements! =8^) |
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In any case, I used to dread running fixpackages, but it's now simply not |
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an issue! =8^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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